%0 Journal Article %A B Brecher %T Buying human kidneys: autonomy, commodity and power. %D 1991 %R 10.1136/jme.17.2.99 %J Journal of Medical Ethics %P 99-99 %V 17 %N 2 %X Buttle's reply to my objections to buying kidneys is helpful but unconvincing in two respects. Doing something freely leaves quite open the possibility that one is thereby making a commodity of a person; and the effects of institutionalising such a practice is itself a matter for concern. And while his emphasis on 'power' is important, the concept is hardly less problematic than 'commodification'. %U https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/17/2/99.full.pdf