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Fabre, Cecile. "Justice and the Compulsory Taking of Body Parts" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-27 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64997_index.html>

Fabre, C. , 2002-08-28 "Justice and the Compulsory Taking of Body Parts" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-27 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64997_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Thousands of people, throughout the world, are so medically needy that they must get an organ, some tissue or blood in order to lead minimally decent lives or even to survive; the majority of them will not get a transplant, and some of them will die as a result. This paper argues that, if one thinks that the needy have a right to the material resources they need to lead minimally decent lives, one must be committed, in some cases, to conferring on the sick a right that the healthy give them some of the body parts they need to lead such a life. My argument proceeds in two steps: first, I show that body parts are the kind of resources of which it makes sense to say that one can have a right to it; second, I show that the very considerations that dictate conferring welfare rights on the poor dictate conferring on the sick rights to some of the body parts of the healthy. I then assess two objections against that view, to wit: to confer on the sick a right to the live body parts of the healthy (a) violates the bodily integrity of the latter; and (b) constitutes too much of an interference in their life. The first one relies on a misinterpretation of the Kantian requirement that people be treated as ends; the second one relies too heavily on the principles of acts and omissions and double-effect. However, although those objections are not as strong as their proponents aver, they lead me to qualify my proposal in some respects. I conclude that although the sick sometimes have a right to some of the body parts of the healthy, the latter still retain a considerable degree of autonomy.

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