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Kidney for sale by owner : human organs, transplantation, and the market /
THREE: 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; Scientif...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | THREE: 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; FOUR: THE BODY, ITS PARTS, AND THE MARKET: REVISIONIST INTERPRETATIONS FROM THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY; Introduction; Major Theories; Summary; FIVE: PROHIBITION: MORE HARM THAN BENEFIT? 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781589013551 1589013557 |