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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... Burden of Proof 19 Persons and Body Parts 22 Owning One's Body 28 Repugnance : Adjudication among Moral Intuitions 36 Government , Health Care Policy , and Private Choices 42 Summary 68 THREE A MARKET IN HUMAN ORGANS : COSTS AND ...
... burden of proof . Given the salience of particular constellations of factors , the moral licitness of an organ market will range from being rightfully forbidden , to prima facie permissibility , to the position that it clearly ought not ...
... burdens . " 70 From this viewpoint , society is obligated to sustain the existence of each individual . Moreover , this duty extends not only to providing basic health care but also , if necessary , to organ transplantation.71 The U.S. ...
... burden of proof . The general significance of ownership , forbear- ance , and privacy rights , as well as the closeness of the analogy between domin- ion / possession / ownership of one's body parts and dominion / possession / owner ...
... burden of proof required to restrict such free human interaction . As foundational conditions supporting organ sales increase in significance , so too will the standard of moral evidence necessary to forbid such transactions . Whereas ...
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 |