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Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 60
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Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of
thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this
shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are
nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political
theoretical premises, or understandings of special moral concerns,
such as permissible uses of the body, which have a long history of
analysis. The essays compass the views of Plato, Aristotle,
Aquinas, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Mill and Christianity, as well as
particular methodological approaches, such as the phenomenology of
the body, natural law theory, legal theory and libertarian critique
of legal theory. These discussions cluster a number of conceptually
independent philosophical concerns: (1) What is the appropriate
understanding of the relationship between persons and their bodies?
(2) What does it mean to own' an organ? (3) Do governments have
moral authority to regulate how persons use their own body parts?
(4) What are the costs and benefits of a market in human organs?
Such questions are related by an urgent public health challenge:
the considerable disparity between the number of patients who could
significantly benefit from organ transplantation and the number of
human organs available for transplantation. This volume explores
the theoretical, normative, and historical foundations for
alternative policies for procurement and transplantation of human
organs.
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