Citation

MacAdam E. Stud. Law Polit. Soc. 2011; 56: 1-36.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Emerald Group Publishing)

DOI

10.1108/S1059-4337(2011)0000056004

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Abstract

This chapter addresses the alienability or inalienability of the bodily self by looking at continuing legal, economic, and cultural issues surrounding three case studies: the growth of cell lines, live organ transfer, and the practices of "forced prostitution" as a contemporary form of slavery. The essay contends that it is, ironically, Locke and Hegel's shared hyperliberal notion of the self as inalienable property that sustains a potential basis, in law and in culture,for troubling cases of self-alienation which persist in the case studies offered.

Keywords: Human trafficking