Contents Section One: Bodies Perfect, Bodies Everlasting, Bodies Bought and Sold Terra Es Animata: On Having A Life Gilbert Meilaender The New Eugenics and Feminist Quandaries Jean Bethke Elshtain The Dream of the Human Genome Richard C. Lewontin The Matter of Baby M Judge C. J. Wilentz "Surrogate Mothering" and Women's Freedom: A Critique of Contracts for Human Reproduction Mary Lyndon Shanley Section Two: Suffering and Pain: The Body Beleaguered and Besieged Pain, Suffering, and Death in the ICU Arthur P. Wheeler, M.D. Suffering in Chronic Illness Eric J. Cassell A Reflection on Pain and Embodiment Richard M.

Zaner Section Three: Organs for Sale or Rent: Progress or Pathology Organs For Sale? Propriety, Property and the Price of Progress Leon Kass, M.D. The Case for Commerce in Organ Transplantation James F. Blumstein Section Four: Misguided Compassion, Disciplined Subjects, Torture as Politics, and Slavery as Social Death Killing Compassion Stanley Hauerwas Selling Bodies David Steiner Democratic Space: A Study of Political Excess in Foucault's Thought Charles E. Scott Torture, Human Rights, and the Body J. Timothy Cloyd The Slave Body: Authority, Alienation, and Social Death Orlando Patterson Notes About the Authors.