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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... limited to the free agreements of persons , the greater will be the burden of proof on those persons and governmen- tal institutions who presume to interfere with free consensual interaction to show that they do so with moral authority ...
... limited sense of pos- sessing the capacity to appreciate the relationship between choices and their out- comes or significance . As Kant marked the distinction : " A person is a subject whose actions can be imputed to him . . . a thing ...
... limited , a theory of property that held that while one owns the items and has exclusive use , they may never be alienated , would be inadequate . Forbidding alienation , whether through abandonment , donation , or sale , requires ...
... limited to demonstrating ( 1 ) that the individual was coerced , ( 2 ) that he was incapable of autonomously consenting to such a contract , or ( 3 ) that prior agreements constrained his freedom to consent to the transaction ...
... limited . Rights to alienation are defeated if exercise of such a right is detrimental to the production or maintenance of this special good . Consider Nozick's " Wilt Chamberlain " case : Suppose that Wilt Chamberlain is greatly in ...
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 |