A legal market in organs: the problem of exploitation.

Abstract:

:The article considers the objection to a commercial market in living donor organs for transplantation on the ground that such a market would be exploitative of the vendors. It examines a key challenge to that objection, to the effect that denying poor people the option to sell an organ is to withhold from them the best that a bad situation has to offer. The article casts serious doubt on this attempt at justifying an organ market, and its philosophical underpinning. Drawing, in part, from the catalogued consequences of a thriving kidney market in some parts of India, it is argued that the justification relies on conditions which are extremely unlikely to obtain, even in a regulated donor market: that organ selling meaningfully improves the material situation of the organ vendor. Far from being axiomatic, both logic and the extant empirical evidence point towards the unlikelihood of such an upshot. Finally, the article considers a few conventional counter-arguments in favour of a permissive stance on organ sales.

journal_name

J Med Ethics

authors

Greasley K

doi

10.1136/medethics-2012-100770

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-01-01 00:00:00

pages

51-6

issue

1

eissn

0306-6800

issn

1473-4257

pii

medethics-2012-100770

journal_volume

40

pub_type

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