Body Values: The Case against Compensating for Transplant Organs

Hastings Center Report 33 (1):27-33 (2003)
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Abstract

Proposals to compensate families for transplantable organs are gathering momentum. These proposals assume that the body is not integral to the self—that it can be treated like property. Most people believe otherwise.

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