Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation : Controversy and Contention.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, James Stacey.

Contributor:

Cherry, Mark J.

Series:

Routledge Annals of Bioethics Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This volume presents a comprehensive examination of one of bioethics' most divisive debates: whether human organs should be bought and sold. It brings together diverse philosophical perspectives from leading scholars who explore the moral, political, and practical dimensions of organ markets.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword: Twenty Years of Moral Arguments

1 Selling Human Organs for a Profit: Saving Lives, Reducing Suffering, and Freeing Resources

1.1 Introduction: A Controversial Idea

1.2 The Arguments

1.2.1 Proponents

1.2.2 Opponents

1.2.3 Organ Markets and Metaethics

1.2.4 Policy Responses to Markets in Human Body Parts

1.3 Conclusion: Insisting On Altruism Kills

Bibliography

Part I Arguments in Favor

2 WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Sufficient in (Unremunerated) Organs and Blood

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Blood Products

2.2.1 Whole Blood

2.2.2 Plasma

2.2.3 Rationales

2.2.4 The EU and Substances of Human Origin

2.2.5 Section Summary and Recommendations

2.3 Self-Sufficiency and Organs

2.3.1 Cross-Border Kidney Exchange

2.3.2 Other Developments

2.4 Nonremuneration and Organs

2.5 Conclusion

Notes

3 The Presumptive Case for Organ Markets

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Kidney Shortage and Its Implications

3.3 Assessing Objections

3.4 Conclusion

Acknowledgment

4 Kidney Sales, Since Everyone Benefits

4.1 Recipients Would Benefit

4.2 Sellers Would Benefit

4.3 Might-Be Donors Would Benefit

4.4 Would-Be Donors Would Benefit

4.5 The Bad Option Objection

4.5 Conclusion

Appendix: How Not To Argue That Sales Harm Sellers

Part II Arguments Against

5 Living Donation, Identity Formation, and the Virtue of Cost-Neutrality: A Renewed Defense of NOTA's Prohibition Against Selling and Buying Bodily Organs

5.1 Introduction: NOTA and Revisiting Motivations of Living Donors

5.2 Why Organs Shouldn't Be for Sale and Communitarian Ethics.

5.3 Aristotle, Identity Formation, and Living Donation

5.4 Offering Incentives, Removing Disincentives, and the Positive Case for Promoting Living Donation Through Civic Engagement Based On Principles of Medical Ethics

5.4.1 Autonomy

5.4.2 Non-Maleficence

5.4.3 Beneficence

5.4.4 A Communitarian Ethos and the Utility of Cost-Neutrality

5.5 Conclusion

6 Paternalism, Feasibility, and the Regulation of Controversial Markets

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Is Paternalism Permissible?

6.3 Is Hard Coercive Paternalism (Im)Permissible?

6.4 Do Prohibitions of Controversial Markets Involve Hard Paternalism?

6.5 How Seriously Do Paternalistic Worries Undermine Pro-Market Arguments?

6.6 The Empirical Question: Are Sellers Harmed?

6.6.1 Surrogacy

6.6.2 Sex Work

6.6.3 Kidney Selling

6.7 Do Harms to Sellers Support Prohibition Or Regulation?

6.8 Feasibility

6.8.1 Identifying a Beneficial System Needs to Be Feasible

6.8.3 Infeasibility Should Not Be Assumed

6.8.2 The Proposal Needs To Be Feasible

6.9 Implications for Law and Policy

6.10 Conclusion

7 Distributive Justice and Controversial Markets

7.1 Distributive Concerns and Their Alternatives

7.2 How Markets Are Unjust

7.3 Concerns With Distributive Accounts

7.4 Conclusion and the Way Ahead

Part III Philosophical Puzzles and Moral Pluralism

8 Integrative Pluralism: Spurring More Debates On Relating and Configuring Medicine, Morals, and Markets

8.1 Health Care: Always More Than Biomedicine

8.2 Fundamental Disagreement On the Essential "More" Parts of More Than Biomedicine Or Why Contemporary Health Care Is Indeterminably Complicated

8.3 Integrative Pluralism? Six Models to Spur Further Thinking and Research

8.4 Conclusion

Bibliography.

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-04-117429-2

1-04-076342-1

1-003-68965-5

1-04-076330-8

9781003689652

OCLC:

1547238859

Publisher Number:

CIPO000291614