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TOPIC PATHBody, medicine and bioethics18 articles on this path
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Are All Rights Property Rights?

Are All Rights Property Rights?

Self-ownership powerfully explains bodily autonomy and consent, but can property really account for expression, conscience, voting, privacy and fair procedure? Are All Rights Property Rights? tests the limits of the thesis.

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Does Consent Legitimize Authority?

Does Consent Legitimize Authority?

Consent can change the moral relationship between people. But does living in a country, using public services, voting, or failing to emigrate really amount to consent to political authority?

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A child stands in an illuminated space of their own between two adult figures who support without enclosing, symbolizing protection, stewardship, and evolving autonomy.

A Child Belongs Neither to the State nor to the Parents

A child is a person with rights and evolving autonomy. This article distinguishes parental responsibility, the child’s right to be heard, and legitimate protective intervention without turning either family or state into the child’s owner.

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A conceptual 16:9 composition contrasting the natural human being with a technologically redesigned human across a DNA divide, with motifs of nature, biotechnology, mass standardisation and performance enhancement; the image is a critical metaphor and contains no text.

Human Enhancement: Therapy, Upgrade and a New Inequality

When therapy heals, technology serves the person. When a healthy person becomes the target of genetic, neural or bodily optimization, questions of coercion, privilege, inherited advantage and the right to remain unenhanced emerge.

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