
Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping
Philosophy Bites
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The Implications of Selling Tissue
This is actually a question that has enormous implications. Not only do we have industries like the IVF industry, where particularly in the US, eggs are sold for up to $100,000 a cycle. So given there's a commercial drive and there's a surprising state of affairs where we don't own body tissue, how should we philosophically analyse this question about who owns one's body? I think you'll write that it's really imperative that we do so.
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