Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the MarketGeorgetown University Press, 2005 M03 19 - 280 pages If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded? Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Kidney for Sale by Owner, now with a new preface, boldly deconstructs the roadblocks that are standing in the way of restoring health to thousands of people. Author and bioethicist Mark Cherry reasserts the case that health care could be improved and lives saved by introducing a regulated transplant organs market rather than by well-meant, but misguided, prohibitions. |
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... Bioethicist Mark Cherry explores the why of these well - intentioned misperceptions and legislation and boldly deconstructs the roadblocks that are standing in the way of restoring health to thousands of people . If most Americans ...
... Bioethics 147 False Claims to Moral Consensus 148 Crafting Health Care Policy amid Moral Pluralism 154 Appendix : Sample of International Legislation Restricting the Sale of Human Organs for Transplantation 163 List of Cases 169 Notes ...
... Bioethics and the U.S. Task Force on Organ Transplantation 7 each has issued pronouncements con- demning the creation of a for - profit market in human organs . The U.S. Con- gress , the National Kidney Foundation , the United Network ...
... bioethical rhetoric of moral repugnancy , exploitation , coercion , sanctity of life , social justice , and human dignity , though prima facie appealing and politically fashionable , fails adequately to address or to resolve this urgent ...
... bioethical community and encouraged by governmental health care policy . Here one might consider the focus on education as the means to spread AIDS awareness , and thereby to slow transmission . In its 1986 report " Confronting AIDS ...
Contents
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COMMUNITY ALTRUISM AND FREE CHOICE | 99 |
SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE AND THE MARKETPLACE | 102 |
THE VIRTUES AND VICES OF FREE CHOICE | 107 |
SUMMARY | 110 |
The Body Its Parts and the Market Revisionist Interpretations from the History of Philosophy | 113 |
MAJOR THEORIES | 118 |
SUMMARY | 144 |
Prohibition More Harm Than Benefit? | 147 |
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GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE POLICY AND PRIVATE CHOICES | 42 |
SUMMARY | 68 |
Costs and Benefits Vices and Virtues | 72 |
HEALTH CARE COSTS AND BENEFITS | 74 |
EQUALITY AND LIBERTY | 83 |
ORGAN MARKETS VERSUS OTHER PROCUREMENT AND ALLOCATION STRATEGIES | 88 |
FALSE CLAIMS TO MORAL CONSENSUS | 148 |
CRAFTING HEALTH CARE POLICY AMID MORAL PLURALISM | 154 |
Sample of International Legislation Restricting the Sale of Human Organs for Transplantation | 163 |
List of Cases | 169 |
Notes | 171 |
Index | 245 |
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Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market Mark J. Cherry Limited preview - 2015 |
Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market Mark J. Cherry Limited preview - 2005 |
Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market Mark J. Cherry No preview available - 2005 |