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Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping

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The Lockean Argument for Taking Tissues From the Human Body

John Locke was talking about land, not tissue taken from the human body. But if I planted a seed and it grew and I harvested the fruit that grew on the plants, surely there's a sense in which I've nurtured the tissue within my body," he says. "I do think that the Lockean model is actually very useful but I think we need to differentiate"

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