Kidney for sale by owner
Subtitle: human organs, transplantation, and the market
By: Mark J. Cherry.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: 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
Description: "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 charity-based system now in place. He 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."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human organ sales and moral arguments : the body for beneficence and profit; title: Metaphysics, morality, and political theory : the presuppositions of proscription reexamined; title: A market in human organs : costs and benefits, vices and virtues; title: The body, its parts, and the market : revisionist interpretations from the history of philosophy; title: Prohibition : more harm than benefit?