{"id":13549,"date":"2020-08-04T14:52:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/?post_type=collection&#038;p=13549"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:52:33","slug":"commerce-of-the-body","status":"publish","type":"collection","link":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/collections\/commerce-of-the-body","title":{"rendered":"Commerce of the Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Worries about the commodification of  the body\u2014from patenting human genes to buying human eggs to selling  human organs\u2014cut across the typical conservative-liberal divides in America. Some conservatives fear that human dignity is compromised by selling body parts; others believe that human liberty is undermined by restricting mutually beneficial transactions of the body. Likewise, many liberals believe that such buying and selling exploits women and the poor, while others defend the right to sell one\u2019s body parts in the name of liberal autonomy. In the past few editions of <em>The New Atlantis<\/em>, essays by Eric Cohen (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/biotechnology-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism\">Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism<\/a>,\u201d Spring 2006) and Gilbert Meilaender (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/gifts-of-the-body\">Gifts of the Body<\/a>,\u201d Summer 2006) have considered these issues\u2014first in general, then in the specific context of recent calls to permit an organ market in the United States in order to ameliorate the suffering of those waiting, perhaps in vain, for a transplant. To keep the conversation going, we asked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-case-for-kidney-markets\">Benjamin Hippen<\/a>, a nephrologist, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/is-the-body-property\">Peter Lawler<\/a>, a political theorist, to use the  Cohen and Meilaender essays as the occasion to think about organ markets  and the new commerce of the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","collection_type":[2247],"topics":[5012,5014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/13549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/collection"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection_type?post=13549"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=13549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}