Kidney for sale by owner : human organs, transplantation, and the market / Mark J. Cherry.
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- ONE : HUMAN ORGAN SALES AND MORAL ARGUMENTS : THE BODY FOR BENEFICENCE AND PROFIT: Introduction
- Challenges for public health care policy
- "Global consensus"
- Prohibition : controversies and criticism
- TWO : METAPHYSICS, MORALITY, AND POLITICAL THEORY : THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF PROSCRIPTION REEXAMINED: Introduction
- Initial considerations : assessing standards of evidence and placing the burden of proof
- Persons and body parts
- Owning one's body
- Repugnance : adjudication among moral intuitions
- Government, health care policy, and private choices
- 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 [sic] 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?: Aspiring to an international bioethics
- False claims to moral consensus
- Crafting health care policy amid moral pluralism
- Appendix : sample of international legislation restricting the sale of human organs for transplantation.