La commercializzazione di parti del corpo umano. Di quale dignità abbiamo bisogno?

Many authors have argued for moral and legal unacceptability of buying and selling human organs. Recently, Roberto Andorno has revived an argument for such a conclusion based on a Kantian conception of human dignity. I try to show that instead we need an empirical conception of dignity and that there are good reasons, relating to the vulnerability of the poor sellers, which lead to a negative moral judgment on organs commodification. Admittedly, such an argument may be not as strong as those based on a “pure” conception of human dignity.