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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... living donors . The principle of totality has been widely influential in the West as forbidding the removal of healthy organs from living vendors . Locke's account of natural duties to oneself and others places constraints on the ...
... living persons is medically viable : in the United States 6,623 such transplants were performed in 2002 and 6,819 in 2003 , with more than 65,966 to date . Perioperative mortality for nephrectomy is very low , approximately 0.03 percent ...
... living or dead is indefensible under any cir- cumstance , " 15 and the World Health Organization's ( WHO ) " Guiding Princi- ples on Human Organ Transplantation " prohibits giving and receiving money for organs.16 Moreover , the WHO ...
... living donors for transplantation.3 35 Altruistic donation is believed to support individual freedom by fostering personal choice . As the Transplantation Society argued with regard to living unrelated donors : " altruism on the part of ...
... living vendors for transplantation arouses in many feelings of gruesome horror . Commercial schemes are viewed as intrinsi- cally exploitative.50 The historical precedent for such a market , according to Russell Scott , is chattel ...
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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