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The Duty to rescue : the jurisprudence of aid
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ISBN: 1855213966 9781855213968 Year: 1993 Volume: *3 Publisher: Aldershot, Hants, England Brookfield, Vt., USA Dartmouth

Whose body is it anyway? : Justice and the integrity of the person
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ISBN: 9780199532292 9780199289998 0199289999 0191603554 019953229X 9786611154721 0191537314 1281154725 1435624025 9780191537318 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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In the prevailing liberal ethos, if there is one thing that is beyond the reach of others, it is our body in particular, and our person in general: our legal and political tradition is such that we have the right to deny others access to our person and body, even though doing so would harm those who need personal services from us, or body parts. However, we lack the right to use ourselves as we wish in order to raise income, even though we do not necessarily harm others by doingso---even though we might in fact benefit them by doing so. C--eacute--;cile Fabre's aim in this book is to show that, according to the principles of distributive justice which inform most liberal democracies, both in practice and in theory, it should be exactly the other way around: that is, if it is true that we lack the right to withhold access to material resources from those who need them, we also lack the right to withhold access to our body from those who need it; but we do, under some circumstances, have the right to decide how to use it in orderto raise income. More specifically, she argues in favour of the confiscation of body parts and personal services, as well as of the commercialization of organs, sex, and reproductive capacities.

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