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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... based on the moral views of John Locke , Immanuel Kant , and Thomas Aquinas , and shows these claims to be steeped in myth , oversimplification , and contorted logic . Continued on back flap Kidney for Sale by Owner Kidney for Sale by ...
... Kant , which would usu- ally be interpreted as foreclosing a market in human organs . I consider , as well , the ... Kant's arguments that selling one's body parts uses oneself as a means merely , rather than protecting oneself as an end ...
... Kant , in each case the arguments on closer examination do not unequivocally preclude the selling of human organs , including redundant internal organs or those procured from cadaver sources . If cer- tain critical premises are ...
... Kantian injunction that persons should always be treated as autonomous ends and not merely as means to the ends of others , a morally justifiable policy will be one which is likely to provide the largest number of ... organs ... without ...
... Kant marked the distinction : " A person is a subject whose actions can be imputed to him . . . a thing is that to which nothing can be imputed . Any object of free choice which itself lacks freedom is therefore called a thing ( res ...
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 |