Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation
Controversy and Contention
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Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation
Controversy and Contention
About this book
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.
The volume addresses critical questions at the intersection of medicine, ethics, and economics:
- Would financial incentives for organ donation save lives or exploit the vulnerable?
- Can organ markets be ethically regulated to prevent abuse?
- How do principles of distributive justice apply to organ allocation?
- Should bodily autonomy extend to selling one's organs?
Contributors include both proponents who argue that properly regulated markets would increase organ supply and reduce suffering, and opponents who contend that commodification of organs violates human dignity and risks exploitation. The collection examines utilitarian, libertarian, and communitarian approaches while considering real-world policy implications. It also offers nuanced analysis of paternalistic prohibitions, feasibility concerns, and alternative procurement systems. By presenting multiple viewpoints in dialogue, the volume provides readers with the intellectual tools to form their own informed positions on this controversial issue.
Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation is an ideal resource for researchers, students, and healthcare professionals interested in the ethical dimensions of transplant medicine.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- 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
- Part I Arguments in Favor
- 2 WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Sufficient in (Unremunerated) Organs and Blood
- 3 The Presumptive Case for Organ Markets
- 4 Kidney Sales, Since Everyone Benefits
- 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
- 6 Paternalism, Feasibility, and the Regulation of Controversial Markets
- 7 Distributive Justice and Controversial Markets
- Part III Philosophical Puzzles and Moral Pluralism
- 8 Integrative Pluralism: Spurring More Debates on Relating and Configuring Medicine, Morals, and Markets
- Index