Commerce in organs: A Kantian critique

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 315-324

  Morelli, Mario ^a  

^a NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMMODIFICATION; ECONOMICS; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; LIVING DONOR; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; TRANSPLANTATION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

COMMERCE; COMMODIFICATION; ETHICAL THEORY; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; LIVING DONORS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 2342646910     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00020     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Russell Scott, The Body as Property (New York: Viking Press, 1981), 51.
2. Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler, "Transplantation and the law: The need for organized sensitivity." Georgetown Law Journal, 57 (1968-69), 9.
3. Sadler and Sadler, 11.
4. 5Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Lewis White Beck (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1959), 47.
5. 7Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, trans. James Ellington (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964), 84.
6. Kant, Metaphysical Principles, 84.
7. Kant, Foundations, 53.
8. Margaret Jane Radin, "Market-inalienability," Harvard Law Review, 100 no. 4 (1987), 1845-1937.
9. Charles Fried, Right and Wrong (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), 142.
10. Gerald Dworkin, "Markets and morals: The case for organ sales," in Gerald Dworkin (ed.), Morality, Harm, and the Law (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), 160.
11. Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, trans. Louis Infeld (New York: Harper and Row, 1963), 165.
12. See, for example, Courtney Campbell, "Body, self, and the property paradigm," Hastings Center Report, 22 (1992), 34-42, esp. 39-40.
13. 17Thomas Hill, "Humanity as an end in itself," in Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), 38-57.
14. See, for example, Lori Andrews, "My body, my property," Hastings Center Report, 16 no. 5 (1986), 28-38;
15. and Susan Rose-Ackermann, "Inalienability and the theory of property rights," Columbia Law Review, 85 no. 4-5 (1985), 931-69.
16. Consider Kant's remarks in The Metaphysical Principles of Virtue: "To destroy the subject of morality in his own person is tantamount to obliterating from the world, as far as he can, the very existence of morality itself; but morality is, nevertheless, an end in itself. Accordingly to dispose of oneself as a mere means to some end of one's own liking is to degrade the humanity in one's own person, which, after all, was entrusted to man to preserve" (83-84).
17. Thomas Hill, "Self-regarding suicide: A modified Kantian view," in Autonomy and Self-Respect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 99.
18. David A. J. Richards, Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982), chap. 3.