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About this book
If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded?
Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Kidney for Sale by Owner, now with a new preface, boldly deconstructs the roadblocks that are standing in the way of restoring health to thousands of people. Author and bioethicist Mark Cherry reasserts the case that health care could be improved and lives saved by introducing a regulated transplant organs market rather than by well-meant, but misguided, prohibitions.
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Index
A
abortion, 24–25, 37–40, 51–58, 63–64, 66, 147, 153, 158, 194n45, 195nn46–51, 196n60, 202n99, 203n100, 203n102, 203n104, 205n125, 207n139, 238n4, 241n31
Abouna, G. M., 13, 179n31, 182n58, 186nn89–90, 187n102, 212n24
abstinence, 38
Acton, J. E. E. D., 203n102
Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III, 53, 201n94
Adams, A. F., 209n5
Adams, F., 186n95
Adams, O., 199n73, 213n32
Adams, P., 171n3, 211n20, 212n25
Adey, D., 209n7
Adson, M. A., 176n12
advertising for organs, 6, 15, 88
Agapius, Saint, 228n22
agreement, peaceable, 65–66
AIDS, 38, 104, 190n25, 196nn52–55, 203n104, 205n125, 239n13.
See also HIV Akaydin, M., 174n6
Alberta, 203n100
Alcorn, S., 172n12
Aldrete, J. A., 176n12
Alexander, J. W., 213n31
Algeria, 163
alienation, 19, 29–35, 66, 68, 70, 114, 128
Aljama, P., 220n112
Al-Maket, S., 174n6
Alora, Angeles tan, 84, 204n113, 214nn41–42, 239n10
Altman, L. K., 190n24
altruism, xi–xiii, 1, 4–7, 10, 14, 17, 36, 40, 56, 72–78, 81, 91, 93, 99–102, 107, 110–11, 113, 150–54, 180n42, 222n117
Alyn, Irene, 198n65
Alzheimer’s disease, 104, 223n129
Ambuhl, P. M., 224n136
American Council on Transplantation, 221n114
American Lung Association, 104
American Medical Association, ix–x, 6, 171n3, 179n35, 199n72
Council on Ethica...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One: Human Organ Sales and Moral Arguments: The Body for Beneficence and Profit
- Two: Metaphysics, Morality, and Political Theory: The Presuppositions of Proscription Reexamined
- Three: A Market in Human Organs: Costs and Benefits, Vices and Virtues
- Four: The Body, Its Parts, and the Market: Revisionist Interpretations from the History of Philosophy
- Five: Prohibition: More Harm Than Benefit?
- Appendix: Sample of International Legislation Restricting the Sale of Human Organs for Transplantation
- List of Cases
- Notes
- Index