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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... sufficient for a market in human organs to be morally licit . This analysis involves exploring basic founda- tional issues regarding the relationship between persons and their bodies , the senses in which organs can be property , the ...
... sufficient to demonstrate that a market in human organs is morally permissible . Chapter 3 turns to a more detailed evaluation of an organ market's costs and benefits , which tend to tip the balance in terms of one or another conclusion ...
... sufficiently informed to be able to understand and weigh the risks , benefits and consequences of consent . " 28 As the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment Report points out , psychological , emotional , and medical needs , as well as ...
... sufficient reason to override society's commitment to prevent exploitation and to preserve human dignity : Assuming and adopting as we do the Kantian injunction that persons should always be treated as autonomous ends and not merely as ...
... sufficiently increase the supply of organs to more than compensate for any inefficiencies . The third criticism identified by the Transplantation Society is often phrased in terms of the Hippocratic injunction first to do no harm ...
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 |