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Kidney for Sale by Owner
Mark J. Cherry
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Description for Kidney for Sale by Owner
Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. This book shows that health care could be improved and lives could be saved by introducing a regulated transplant organs market rather than by well-meant, but misguided, prohibitions. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC; MNQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 634.
If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded? Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Kidney for Sale by Owner, now with a new preface, boldly deconstructs the roadblocks that are standing in the way of restoring health to thousands of people. Author and bioethicist Mark Cherry reasserts the case that health care could be improved and lives ... Read more
If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded? Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Kidney for Sale by Owner, now with a new preface, boldly deconstructs the roadblocks that are standing in the way of restoring health to thousands of people. Author and bioethicist Mark Cherry reasserts the case that health care could be improved and lives ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589010406
SKU
V9781589010406
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About Mark J. Cherry
Mark J. Cherry is the Dr. Patricia A. Hayes Professor in Applied Ethics and professor of philosophy at St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas. He is editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, associate senior editor of Christian Bioethics, and editor-in-chief of HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum. He is coeditor of the book series The Annals of Bioethics and editor of ... Read more
Reviews for Kidney for Sale by Owner
Kidney for Sale by Owner is a remarkable book-insightful, scholarly, and beautifully argued. American Journal of Bioethics Kidney for Sale by Owner is a tour de force, demonstrating both philosophical acumen, insight and scholarly care. This is how bioethics should be done! Moreover-and more soberly-given the number of people who die while waiting for a transplant, and the greater number ... Read more