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Book Review: Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade

Book Review: Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade 114 J OURNAL OF M ORAL P HILOSOPHY 2.1 (2005) rights, Gorman’s book would make a suitable text for undergraduates doing a course on political or legal philosophy. Adrian M. Viens Harris Manchester College, Oxford adrian.viens@philosophy.ox.ac.uk S. Wilkinson, Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade (London: Routledge, 2003), 248 pp. ISBN 0415266254 (pbk). Hardback/Paperback. £50.00/ £15.99. Into the ever-increasing literature regarding the market for and the marketability of the body and its parts comes this accessible and useful work. It comprises two parts: Concepts and Practices . I comment on each of these in turn. In the Concepts part, Wilkinson looks at six key ideas—exploitation, objectifica- tion, commodification, harm, consent, and coercion—with respect to the marketing of body parts, images, and body-usage. Overall, Wilkinson’s treatment of these concepts is characterized by his awareness for the complexities these concepts contain. This is, for example, the case in Wilkinson’s chapter on exploitation in which he explores the dichotomy between the judgemental use of the word (always bad—‘exploiting the workers’, or ‘this film exploits women’) with the business use of the word (‘exploiting our talents’, ‘exploit- ing the resources available’) which may be morally neutral but business-positive— http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Moral Philosophy Brill

Book Review: Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade

Browton, Hugh
Journal of Moral Philosophy , Volume 2 (1): 114 – Jan 1, 2005
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© 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1740-4681
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10.1177/174046810500200112
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114 J OURNAL OF M ORAL P HILOSOPHY 2.1 (2005) rights, Gorman’s book would make a suitable text for undergraduates doing a course on political or legal philosophy. Adrian M. Viens Harris Manchester College, Oxford adrian.viens@philosophy.ox.ac.uk S. Wilkinson, Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade (London: Routledge, 2003), 248 pp. ISBN 0415266254 (pbk). Hardback/Paperback. £50.00/ £15.99. Into the ever-increasing literature regarding the market for and the marketability of the body and its parts comes this accessible and useful work. It comprises two parts: Concepts and Practices . I comment on each of these in turn. In the Concepts part, Wilkinson looks at six key ideas—exploitation, objectifica- tion, commodification, harm, consent, and coercion—with respect to the marketing of body parts, images, and body-usage. Overall, Wilkinson’s treatment of these concepts is characterized by his awareness for the complexities these concepts contain. This is, for example, the case in Wilkinson’s chapter on exploitation in which he explores the dichotomy between the judgemental use of the word (always bad—‘exploiting the workers’, or ‘this film exploits women’) with the business use of the word (‘exploiting our talents’, ‘exploit- ing the resources available’) which may be morally neutral but business-positive—

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Published: Jan 1, 2005

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