Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping

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Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping

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Do you own your body? If not, who does? These are important questions in an age in which there is extensive trade in body parts. Donna Dickenson, author of Body Shopping, discusses this issue with Nigel Warburton in this episode of Philosophy Bites.

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