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- Title
On Commodification and Self-Ownership.
- Authors
Halewood, Peter
- Abstract
The article discusses if the commodification of the human body, which includes gendered commodification produced by biotechnology, conflicts with self-ownership rights. Commodification refers to the extent to which our bodies, become commodities with a market exchange value. The author argues that the notion of property as constitutive of personhood can be enlisted in self-ownership. Commodification of the body by biotechnology may extend self-ownership to those groups historically denied it. The commodification in emerging biotechnology has precedent in anti-slaver and emancipatory ideas of self-ownership, which undermines the objections to commodification. The article suggests that discrimination may impact members of subjugated groups and jeopardize self-ownership benefits.
- Subjects
COMMODIFICATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HUMAN body; MOORE v. Regents of the University of California (Supreme Court case); HUMAN constitution; PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
- Publication
Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 2008, Vol 20, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
1041-6374
- Publication type
Article