Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
Researchers have made progress in understanding the role of repugnance in transactions involving the human body. Yet, often, the focus remains on exchange between individuals and how they mentally cope (or not) with repugnance. But these exchanges also entail a “vertical” dimension in which organizational and state actors both directly manage repugnance and also limit the repugnance management tools available to the marketplace. Analyzing repugnance and its management as an organizational and regulatory problem, in addition to an individual one, suggests that a single, harmonized system of exchange in bodily goods is unlikely to emerge with the passage of time.
Citation
Kieran Healy & Kimberly D. Krawiec, Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body, 107 American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 1-5 (2017)
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Donation of organs tissues etc., Aversion, Exchange, Markets--Law and legislation
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Bioethics and Medical Ethics Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Law and Society Commons
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