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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Global Body Market
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- The Global Body Market: Altruism’s Limits
- Introduction
- Part I Contestable Commodities
- 1 Free Markets, Free Choice?
- 2 Exploitation and Choice in the Global Egg Trade
- 3 How to Create Markets in Contestable Commodities
- Part II The Blind Side of Altruism
- 4 Compelled Body Part Donations from Children
- 5 Quid pro Quo Altruism
- 6 Situated Bodies in Medicine and Research: Altruism versus Compelled Sacrifice
- Part III Managing Markets in Contestable Commodities
- 7 The Perverse History of Dead Bodies under American Law
- 8 Taxing the Body
- 9 Criminal Policing of Human Experimentation
- 10 Liberalizing Tort Law
- Conclusion
- Journal Acknowledgments
- Index
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