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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... Consensus " 4 Prohibition : Controversies and Criticisms 15 TWO METAPHYSICS , MORALITY , AND POLITICAL THEORY : THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF PROSCRIPTION REEXAMINED 18 Introduction 18 Initial Considerations : Assessing Standards of Evidence ...
... 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 171 Index 245 Acknowledgments ...
... consensus . Various policy statements have been broadly influential in shaping the global " consensus " against such a market . The Transplantation Society , the World Health Organization , 5 the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the ...
... consensus . Is such a global consensus and its promotion of worldwide legal prohibition morally justified ? Sympathetic articles and editorials exploring the various types of incentives ( often even including financial remuneration ) ...
... consensus " is thus marked by a view that organs should not be treated as commodities , but rather understood as a social resource to be distributed according to medical necessity . Organs are character- ized as medical assets to be ...
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 |