@inbook{6fd3bd4f78b94c10a0ff3e7993c5887f,
title = "Markets for Human Body Parts: The Case of Commercial Surrogacy",
abstract = "The trade in human body parts can be understood as a solution to key challenges for both buyers and suppliers, as well as being a manifestation of individual property rights over one{\textquoteright}s own body. However, it can be argued that there are serious ethical issues involved in commercializing the body in this way, despite which there has recently been a large increase in the international trade in human body parts. The most extensive transactions have concerned the trade in kidneys and the services of the fertility industry. An important driver of this is the fact that the medical profession is increasingly able to facilitate exchanges of human body parts relatively smoothly. The chapter focuses on commercial surrogacy as an example of the ethical aspects of the trade in human body parts and addresses the potential interplay between markets and ethical issues.",
keywords = "Commercial surrogacy, Dignity and exploitation of people, Economics, Ethics, Trade in human body parts",
author = "Kirsten Halsn{\ae}s and Thomas Ploug",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-08462-1_15",
language = "English",
series = "Ethical Economy",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "211--220",
booktitle = "Market, Ethics and Religion",
address = "Germany",
}