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The global body market : altruism's limits / Michele Goodwin, Everett Fraser Professor of Law and Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Minnesota.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodwin, Michele, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Law and legislation--United States.
- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.
- Dead bodies (Law)--United States.
- Dead bodies (Law).
- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Economic aspects--United States.
- Altruism.
- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Black and gray markets for body parts are illegal, but also pioneering and inventive. Although this type of criminal activity requires dexterity and innovation, these markets thrive and flourish, sometimes in view of law. On the other hand, altruistic procurement is mired by low participation, which encourages black market transactions. Thousands of patients die each year waiting for an organ or bone marrow donation through the altruistic procurement system, so some turn to the dark side. This book offers a frank discussion of altruism in the global body market. It exposes how researchers exploit their patients' ignorance to harvest tissue samples, blood, and other biologics without consent, chronicles exploitation in the name of altruism, including the non-consensual use of children in dangerous clinical trials, and analyzes social and legal commitments to the value of altruism - offering an important critique of the vulnerability of altruism to corruption, coercion, pressure, and other negative externalities.
- Contents:
- Free markets, free choice? : A market approach to reproductive rights / Debora L. Spar
- Exploitation and choice in the global egg trade : emotive technology or necessary critique? / Donna Dickenson
- How to create markets in contestable commodities / Richard A. Epstein
- Compelled body part donation from children / Michele Goodwin
- Quid pro quo altruism / Jamila Jefferson-Jones
- Situated bodies in medicine and research : altruism versus compelled sacrifice / Naomi N. Duke
- The perverse history of dead bodies under American law / Ray D. Madoff
- Taxing the body / Dorothy A. Brown
- Criminal policing of human experimentation / L. Song Richardson
- Liberalizing tort law / Michele Goodwinches.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139175913
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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