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In this course, we will discuss the body as a site of moral and political conflict. Here are a few of the questions we¿ll explore: Despite campaigns to encourage kidney donation, we still don¿t have enough kidneys for everybody on the transplant waiting list. Given this shortage, should a person be allowed to sell one of her kidneys? Should a prisoner be allowed to trade one in exchange for a reduced sentence? While many people are comfortable with the idea of altruistic surrogacy, commercial surrogacy is far more controversial. Should a woman be allowed to sell her services as a surrogate? Is there a morally significant difference between gestational surrogacy and genetic surrogacy? What is disability? To what extent is it medical matter, and to what extent is it a matter of oppression or social exclusion? What can we do, morally speaking, for the sake of preventing suicide? When (if ever) are coercive interventions like involuntary commitment and forced drugging morally appropriate? What (if anything) do we owe to non-human animals? What (if anything) do we owe to human fetuses and embryos? What kinds of entities are entitled to moral consideration and why? Some people say that a woman should be allowed to make reproductive decisions on whatever grounds she chooses, including prenatal testing for conditions like Down syndrome; others condemn selective abortion as an unacceptable form of eugenics. What genetic information (if any) should be allowed to influence choices about whether to terminate a pregnancy? When the Supreme Court decided that abortion was a constitutional right in Roe v. Wade, on what legal reasoning did they base their decision? When they overturned Roe in the recent Dobbs v. Jackson, what legal reasoning did they use then? How might the Dobbs decision affect other (current) legal rights?