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Contested Commodities: The trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Parts, and Other Things, Margaret Jane Radin. Harvard University Press, 1996, xiv + 279 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

David Archard
David Archard
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University of St Andrews
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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , October 1998 , pp. 362 - 368
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1. I defend this view further in my ‘Freedom Not to be Free: The Case of the Slavery Contract in J. S. Mill's On Liberty’ The Philosophical Quarterly, 40:453–65CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. Titmuss, Richard, The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy, George Allen & Unwin, 1970Google Scholar.

3. This is how Peter Singer defends Titmuss. Singer, Peter, ‘Altruism and Commerce: A Defense of Titmuss Against Arrow,’ Philosophy and Public Affairs 2:313–20Google Scholar.

4. Lomasky, Loren, ‘Gift Relations, Sexual Relations, and Freedom’, Philosophical Quarterly 33:250–58CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Stewart, Robert M., ‘Morality and the Market in Blood,’ Journal of Applied Philosophy 1:227–37CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Both criticize Singer's defence of Titmuss on these grounds.

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