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Author Cherry, Mark J., author.

Title Kidney for sale by owner : human organs, transplantation, and the market / Mark J. Cherry.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2016]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  617.954 C522K    Check Shelf
Description xx, 258 pages ; 23 cm
Note Revised edition of: Kidney for sale by owner / Mark J. Cherry. ©2005.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Human organ sales and moral arguments : the body for beneficence and profit. Introduction -- Challenges for public health care policy -- "Global consensus" -- Prohibition : controversies and criticism -- 2. 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 choices -- Summary -- 3. 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 -- 4. The body, its parts, and the market : revisionist interpretations from the history of philosophy. Introduction -- Major theories -- Summary -- 5. Prohibition : more harm than benefit?. Aspiring to an international bioethics -- False claims to moral consensus -- Crafting health care policy amidst moral pluralism -- Appendix. Sample of international legislation restricting the sale of human organs for transplantation -- List of cases.
Subject 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.
Transplantation -- ethics.
Transplants -- economics.
Tissue and Organ Procurement.
Added Author Revision of: Cherry, Mark J. Kidney for sale by owner. ©2005.
ISBN 9781626162938 paperback alkaline paper
162616293X paperback alkaline paper
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