Kidney for sale by owner : human organs, transplantation, and the market / Mark J. Cherry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cherry, Mark J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Economic aspects--United States.

Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.

Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Economic aspects--United States.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the past decade in the United States, nearly 6,000 people a year have died waiting for organ transplants. In 2003 alone, only 20,000 out of the 83,000 waiting for transplants received them--in anyone's eyes, a tragedy. Many of these deaths could have been prevented, and many more lives saved, were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Bioethicist Mark Cherry explores the why of these well-intentioned misperceptions and legislation and boldly deconstructs the roadblocks that are standing in the way of restoring health to thousands of

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: HUMAN ORGAN SALES AND MORAL ARGUMENTS: THE BODY FOR BENEFICENCE AND PROFIT; Introduction; Challenges for Public Health Care Policy; "Global Consensus"; Prohibition: Controversies and Criticisms; TWO: METAPHYSICS, MORALITY, AND POLITICAL THEORY: THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF PROSCRIPTION REEXAMINED; Introduction; Initial Considerations: Assessing Standards of Evidence and Placing the Burden of Proof; Persons and Body Parts; Owning One's Body; Repugnance: Adjudication among Moral Intuitions; Government, Health Care Policy, and Private Choices

Summary; THREE: A MARKET IN HUMAN ORGANS: COSTS AND BENEFITS, VICES AND VIRTUES; Introduction; Health Care Costs and Benefits; Special Moral Costs and Benefits: Equality and Liberty; Exploitation: Organ Markets Verses Other Procurement and Allocation Strategies; Community, Altruism, and Free Choice; Scientific Excellence and the Marketplace; The Market and Profit: The Virtues and Vices of Free Choice; Summary; FOUR: THE BODY, ITS PARTS, AND THE MARKET: REVISIONIST INTERPRETATIONS FROM THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY; Introduction; Major Theories; Summary; FIVE: PROHIBITION: MORE HARM THAN BENEFIT?

Aspiring to an International Bioethics; False Claims to Moral Consensus; Crafting Health Care Policy amid Moral Pluralism; Appendix: Sample of International Legislation Restricting the Sale of Human Organs for Transplantation; List of Cases; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589013551

1589013557

OCLC:

798536346