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Cherry Mark J |
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Titolo |
Kidney for sale by owner : human organs, transplantation, and the market / / Mark J. Cherry |
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Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2005 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 Criticisms; 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 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; |
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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; List of Cases; Notes; Index |
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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 |
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