Organ Transplantation And The Commercialization Of Human Biological Material: Some Philosophical And Jurisprudential Implications: OAJBS Publishers
Organ Transplantation And
The Commercialization Of Human Biological Material: Some Philosophical And
Jurisprudential Implications by George Mousourakis* in Open
Access Journal of Biomedical Science (OAJBS)
The advances in molecular biology, medicine
and the neurosciences and the rapid development of genetic technology in recent
years have given rise to a host of questions about the way in which the medical
scientific community and biotechnology industry treat persons and their bodies.
What is described as the ‘commodification’ of the human body, the notion that a
person’s body is a collection of parts that are separable and commercially
transferable, is said to pose a major challenge to traditional intuitions and
cherished beliefs about personhood, the sanctity of human life and the
foundations of its moral dignity. As the commodification of the body is today
becoming increasingly prominent it is necessary to consider whether it is
appropriate to see the human through the conceptual lens of property and
examine and ponder what radical changes may be introduced to our sense of
self-identity if this paradigm is uncritically embraced. The aim of this paper
is to identify and comment on important philosophical and ethic-legal
perspectives that have furnished the framework within which questions
concerning personhood and the use of human body and its parts are raised and
sought to be answered.
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