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| Autor/in | Troop, Don |
|---|---|
| Titel | The Student Body, for Sale |
| Quelle | In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2013)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0009-5982 |
| Schlagwörter | College Students; Student Employment; Paying for College; Human Body; Dance; Interpersonal Relationship; Social Isolation; Purchasing; Ethics; Services; Sexuality; Pharmacology; Biomedicine |
| Abstract | The sale of bodily goods or services--"body commodification"--is nothing new among college students. But strides in medical technology, the encroachment of market values on all facets of life, and the reach and culture of the Internet have combined to create a fertile environment for people who want or need to exploit the value of their skin or what lies beneath it--including students struggling to cover the rising cost of college in this sluggish economy. Students sell plasma, take requests to perform custom erotic acts on Web cameras, or offer themselves as guinea pigs in paid drug trials. A master's student in Penfield, New York, says she was kicked out of her social-work program last June for snuggling with strangers--no sex allowed--for $60 an hour. A handful of Web sites, like SeekingArrangement.com, promise introductions to young and attractive men and women--often students--for "mutually beneficial relationships." An advertisement in campus newspapers at three elite colleges offers $35,000 for the eggs of a young woman with an SAT score above 1400. And though no one in the United States is openly selling kidneys from live donors, Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics started receiving inquiries from financially desperate people after it posted an article on its Web site in 1998 exploring the ethical issues that would surround such a market. When the economy tanked, staff members saw a surge in letters like this one: "I just read your information about how many people need a kidney. I would like more information about it and how I could sell one of my kidneys to your university because I really need money. I want to go to college, but it's really expensive." The shifting terrain of body commodification has prompted scholars to take a renewed look at how similar behaviors are socially and morally classified in starkly different ways, depending on who is involved, how much power they have, and how the transaction is carried out. (ERIC). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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