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Kidney for sale by owner : human organs, transplantation, and the market / Mark J. Cherry.

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THREE: A MARKET IN HUMAN ORGANS: COSTS AND BENEFITS, VICES AND VIRTUES; Introduction; Health Care Costs and Benefits; Special Moral Costs and Benefits: Equality and Liberty; Exploitation: Organ Markets Verses Other Procurement and Allocation Strategies; Community, Altruism, and Free Choice; Scientif...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cherry, Mark J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Procurement of organs, tissues, etc > Economic aspects > United States.
Procurement of organs, tissues, etc > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc > Economic aspects > United States.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Economic aspects.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects.
United States.
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Summary:THREE: A MARKET IN HUMAN ORGANS: COSTS AND BENEFITS, VICES AND VIRTUES; Introduction; Health Care Costs and Benefits; Special Moral Costs and Benefits: Equality and Liberty; Exploitation: Organ Markets Verses Other Procurement and Allocation Strategies; Community, Altruism, and Free Choice; Scientific Excellence and the Marketplace; The Market and Profit: The Virtues and Vices of Free Choice; Summary; FOUR: THE BODY, ITS PARTS, AND THE MARKET: REVISIONIST INTERPRETATIONS FROM THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY; Introduction; Major Theories; Summary; FIVE: PROHIBITION: MORE HARM THAN BENEFIT?
Over the past decade in the United States, nearly 6,000 people a year have died waiting for organ transplants. In 2003 alone, only 20,000 out of the 83,000 waiting for transplants received them--in anyone's eyes, a tragedy. Many of these deaths could have been prevented, and many more lives saved, were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Bioethicist Mark Cherry explores the why of these well-intentioned misperceptions and legislation and boldly deconstructs the roadblocks that are standing in the way of restoring health to thousands of.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781589013551
1589013557
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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