Philosophy Talk. Regulating Bodies

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Abstract: Most countries allow their citizens to smoke cigarettes, get intoxicated, and eat unhealthy food despite the harms that such behaviors bring to the individual's health and to the social and economic interests of the state. Yet taking certain narcotics, selling one's organs, and driving without a seat-belt are often prohibited by law. Is this an arbitrary distinction, or is there a principled reason for these diverging attitudes? What can government legitimately prohibit its citizens from doing to their own bodies -- and what can it legimitately compel them to do? John and Ken are joined by Cecile Fabre from the University of Oxford, author of Whose Body is it Anyway? Justice and the Integrity of the Person.

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical
Form	podcasts
Extent	1 audio file
Place	KALW (Radio station : San Francisco, Calif.)California
Date created	September 30, 2012
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Track configuration	Stereo

philosophytalk.org show page	Title Regulating Bodies
Finding Aid	Title Philosophy Talk (SC1118)
Show#	295.0
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/gy530cq5473
Location	SC1118
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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