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Kidney for Sale by Owner Human Organs, Transplanta
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Kidney for Sale by Owner Human Organs, Transplanta
- ISBN
- 9781589010406
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market
- Item Height
- 229 mm
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press
- Subject
- Medicine, Surgery
- Item Weight
- 499 g
- Item Width
- 152 mm
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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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. He carefully examines arguments against a market for body parts, including 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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Publisher
Georgetown University Press
ISBN-13
9781589010406
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89596114
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market
Publication Year
2005
Subject
Medicine, Surgery
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Weight
499 g
Item Width
152 mm
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United States
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- GB 203170464
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