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Kidney for Sale by Owner - Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market (Hardcover)
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Kidney for Sale by Owner - Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market (Hardcover)
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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 people. If most Americans accept
the notion that the market is the most efficient means to
distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded? Kidney for
Sale by Owner contends that the market is indeed a legitimate - and
humane - way to procure and distribute human organs. Cherry stakes
the claim that it may be even more just, and more compatible with
many Western religious and philosophical traditions, than the
current charity-based system now in place. assertions based on the
moral views of John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Thomas Aquinas, and
shows these claims to be steeped in myth, oversimplification, and
contorted logic. Rather than focusing on purported human
exploitation and the irrational moral repugnance of selling organs,
Cherry argues that we should focus on saving lives. Following on
the thinking of the philosopher Robert Nozick, he demonstrates
that, with regard to body parts, the important core humanitarian
values of equality, liberty, altruism, social solidarity, human
dignity, and, ultimately, improved health care are more
successfully supported by a regulated market rather than by well
meant but misguided, prohibitions.
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