Anne Phillips, Our Bodies, Whose Property?

Property, Bodies and Wittgenstien

It is Quigley’s view that we should regard our own human bodies as our property. Wittgenstein’s famous comments about games and family resemblances are cited in support of this contention. She thinks that classification of bodies as property is significant and that it will help us to answer the ethical and political questions about how we should treat and be permitted to treat body parts, tissu...

Improving Our Bodies, Our Meals, and Our Gadgets

Do we own our bodies?

How Bacteria in Our Bodies Protect Our Health

Biologists once thought that human beings were physiological islands, entirely capable of regulating their own internal workings. Our bodies made all the enzymes needed for breaking down food and using its nutrients to power and repair our tissues and organs. Signals from our own tissues dictated body states such as hunger or satiety. The specialized cells of our immune system taught themselves...

Your body, my body, our coupling moves our bodies

Guillaume Dumas*, Julien Laroche and Alexandre Lehmann 1 Institut Pasteur, Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions Unit, Paris, France 2 CNRS UMR3571 Genes, Synapses and Cognition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 3 Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions, University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France 4 Akoustic Arts, Paris, France 5 Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surger...