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Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Mark
enlarge	Author: Mark J Cherry Publisher: Georgetown University Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$29.95~~ Buy New: $23.96 as of 11/20/2009 18:36 PST details You Save: $5.99 (20%) New (20) Used (10) from $16.00 Seller: Amazon.com Media: Hardcover Edition: 1 Pages: 276 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.8 ISBN: 158901040X Dewey Decimal Number: 617.954 EAN: 9781589010406 ASIN: 158901040X Publication Date: March 19, 2005 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description 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.

Customer Reviews: very well done August 3, 2005 jack 7 out of 10 found this review helpful If one asked me how I felt about selling ones organ's for profit a few months ago I would have surely said that it would be an immoral act indeed. However, after reading cherry's book I cannot, on a philosophical basis, find any flaws in his logic. A fun and interesting read.

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