Owning our Bodies | Anne Phillips, John Harris, Brooke Magnanti
If we have rights and ownership of anything it is…
Philosophy for our times | The Institute of Art and Ideas Podcast · IAI
December 20, 201628m 1s
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Show Notes
If we have rights and ownership of anything it is surely of our own body. Yet we cannot dispose of it as we please, intoxicants are outlawed, and selling our body for sexual pleasure or organ donation is restricted. Is our body strangely not our own after all? Should we insist on our rights and freedom or do we need to be protected from ourselves?
The Panel
Belle de Jour blogger Brooke Magnanti, bioethicist John Harris, and author of Our Bodies, Whose Property? Anne Phillips interrogate ownership.