caa a22 4500 475842006 CHVBK 20180406123903.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1009454612900 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1009454612900 Wilkinson Stephen Department of Philosophy, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK aut Commodification Arguments for the Legal Prohibition of Organ Sale [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Wilkinson] The commercial trading of human organs, along withvarious related activities (for example, advertising)was criminalised throughout Great Britain under theHuman Organ Transplants Act 1989.This paper critically assesses one type of argumentfor this, and similar, legal prohibitions:commodification arguments.Firstly, the term 'scommodification' is analysed. Thiscan be used to refer to either social practices or toattitudes. Commodification arguments rely on thesecond sense and are based on the idea that having acommodifying attitude to certain classes of thing(e.g. bodies or persons) is wrong. The commodifyingattitude consists of three main elements: denial ofsubjectivity, instrumentality, and fungibility.Secondly, in the light of this analysis, the claimthat organ sale involves commodifying the human bodyis examined. This claim is found to be plausible butinsufficient to ground an argument against organ sale,because the very same commodifying attitude is likelyto be present in cases of (unpaid) organ donation. Itis also argued that commodifying bodies per semay not be wrong.Thirdly, the view that organ sale involvescommodifying persons is examined. Although this andthe claim that it is wrong to commodify persons areprobably true, there is - it is argued - littlereason to regard organ sale as worse in this respectthan other widely accepted practices, such as thebuying and selling of labour.The conclusion is that although commodification is auseful ethical concept and although commodificationarguments may sometimes be successful, thecommodification argument against organ sale is notpersuasive. This is not to say, though, that thereare no arguments for prohibition - simply that thisparticular justificatory strategy is flawed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 body commodification nationallicence Brecher nationallicence commodification nationallicence Human Organ Transplants Act 1989 nationallicence organ sale nationallicence Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2000-06-01), 189-201 1065-3058 8:2<189 2000 8 10728 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009454612900 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009454612900 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wilkinson Stephen Department of Philosophy, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2000-06-01), 189-201 1065-3058 8:2<189 2000 8 10728 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer