Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships
Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political theoreti
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 60 Editors H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine and Philosophy Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas S. F. Spicker, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, Boston, Mass. Editorial Board George J. Agich, Department of Bioethics, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio Edmund Erde, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, New Jersey E. Haavi Morreim, Department of Human Values and Ethics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee Becky White, California State University, Chico, California
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
PERSONS AND THEIR BODIES: RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES, RELATIONSHIPS Edited by
MARK J. CHERRY Saint Edward's University Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
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MARK J. CHERRY / Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Sale of Organs
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SECTION ONE / BODIES AND PERSONS: ONTOLOGICAL QUESTIONS R.J. HANKINSON / Body and Soul in Greek Philosophy WENDY DONNER / A Millian Perspective on the Relationship Between Persons and Their Bodies S. KAY TOOMBS / What Does it Mean to be SomeBody ? Phenomenological Reflections and Ethical Quandaries ALLYNE L. SMITH, JR. / An Orthodox Christian View of Persons and Bodies
35 57 73 95
SECTION TWO / NATURAL LAW AND NATURAL RIGHTS JOSEPH BOYLE / Personal Responsibility and Freedom in Health Care: A Contemporary Natural Law Perspective 111 ERIC MACK / The Alienability of Lockean Natural Rights 143 GEORGE KHUSHF / Inalienable Rights in the Moral and Political Philosophy of John Locke: A Reappraisal 177
SECTION THREE / METAPHYSICAL QUANDARIES AND MORAL QUESTIONS THOMAS A. POWERS / The Integrity of Body: Kantian Moral Constraints on the Physical Self
209
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DREW LEDER / Whose Body? What Body? The Metaphysics of Organ Transplantation CHRISTIAN BYK / The Impact of Biomedical Developments on the Legal Theory of the Mind-Body Relationship
233 265
SECTION FOUR / THE BODY FOR PROFIT: O R G A N SALES AND M O R A L THEORY H. TRISTRAM ENGELHARDT, JR. / The Body for Fun, Beneficence, and Profit: A Variation on a Post-Modern Theme DONNA C. KLINE / Despair, Desire, and Decision: A Fugal Response to Engelhardt THOMAS J. BOLE, III / The Sale of Organs and Obligations to One's Body: Inferences from the History of Ethics
277 303 331
SECTION FIVE / PERSONS AND
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