RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Buying human kidneys: autonomy, commodity and power.
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 99
OP 99
DO 10.1136/jme.17.2.99
VO 17
IS 2
A1 B Brecher
YR 1991
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/17/2/99.abstract
AB 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'.