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100 1 _aFABRE, Cécile
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245 1 0 _aJustice and the Coercive Taking of Cadaveric Organs
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_cJanuary 2004
520 3 _aOne of the central questions in discussions of distributive justice is that of the interest of the badlly off, or the worst off, in the financial assets of the well off. By contrast, theorists of distributive justice are remarkably silent on the important and complicated issue of access to the organs of the dead. In this article, I aim to show that if one thinks that the poor's interest in leading a minimally fourishing life, and a fortiori in remaining alive, is important enough to confer on them a right to some of the material resources of the well off, by way of taxation and, in particular, by was of restrictions on bequests and inheritance, one must think that that very same interests is important enough to confer on the sicka right to the organs of the now-dead healthy. I make a case to that effect, and I explore disanalogies between the posthumous transfer of resources and the posthumous transfer of organs. Finally, I rebut two objections to my proposal
773 0 8 _tBritish Journal of Political Science
_g34, 1, p. 69-86
_dCambridge : Cambridge University Press, January 2004
_xISSN 0007-1234
_w
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_b1649^b
_cAnaluiza
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
_c13737
_d13737
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