04430nam 22006974a 450 991081281410332120200520144314.01-58901-355-7(CKB)2560000000056448(EBL)956369(OCoLC)798536346(SSID)ssj0000485428(PQKBManifestationID)11344244(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485428(PQKBWorkID)10603121(PQKB)10555896(SSID)ssj0001593430(PQKBManifestationID)16290091(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001593430(PQKBWorkID)14880810(PQKB)10989021(OCoLC)671571310(MdBmJHUP)muse3253(Au-PeEL)EBL956369(CaPaEBR)ebr10408957(MiAaPQ)EBC956369(EXLCZ)99256000000005644820040930d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKidney for sale by owner human organs, transplantation, and the market /Mark J. Cherry1st ed.Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Pressc20051 online resource (xiv, 258 pages)1-62616-293-X 1-58901-040-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ChoicesSummary; 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?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; IndexOver 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 ofProcurement of organs, tissues, etcEconomic aspectsUnited StatesProcurement of organs, tissues, etcMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesTransplantation of organs, tissues, etcEconomic aspectsUnited StatesTransplantation of organs, tissues, etcMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesProcurement of organs, tissues, etc.Economic aspectsProcurement of organs, tissues, etc.Moral and ethical aspectsTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.Economic aspectsTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.Moral and ethical aspects617.9/54Cherry Mark J884868MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812814103321Kidney for sale by owner3949506UNINA