A Modern Dominium

• In Event: 536 - Section on Human Rights Paper Session. Human Rights and Inequality

Abstract

Through the technological developments and hence – growing - technological concern about body especially in reproduction technologies created its reflection in the social scientific research on the non-ethical use of living body and body parts. These developments cannot reduce the addiction to body, conversely they increase. Surrogate motherhood, being ovum or sperm donors, being a marrow provider donor are some popular examples of these applications which were subjected many scientific and ethical discussions and created different scopes of inequalities even if they were awarded or not. A social and responsible state is not available in order to make of a claim the human right of a person who sells a part of her body to survive. Special tests, operations and other applications are not made, covered and/or seriously controlled by the state and any one claims of a right at the end of a non-human application or even a non-human result of that application. Nevertheless this paper claims and criticizes that governments were neglecting non-human effects of biotechnology products/services.

Author

• Gülsevim Evsel, Middle East Technical University