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. 1991 Jun;17(2):99. doi: 10.1136/jme.17.2.99

Buying human kidneys: autonomy, commodity and power.

B Brecher 1
PMCID: PMC1376007  PMID: 1870091

Abstract

Buttle's reply to my objections to buying kidneys is helpful but unconvincing in two respects. Doing something freely leaves quite open the possibility that one is thereby making a commodity of a person; and the effects of institutionalising such a practice is itself a matter for concern. And while his emphasis on 'power' is important, the concept is hardly less problematic than 'commodification'.

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