1st Edition
Bloody Bioethics Why Prohibiting Plasma Compensation Harms Patients and Wrongs Donors
Introduction
1. Compensating Plasma Donors Is Safe and Effective
2. Donor Compensation and Informed Consent
3. Coercion, Force, Autonomy, and Consent
4. Exploitation
5. Donor Exploitation
6. Social Cohesion and Donor Approbation
7. Contamination, Cohesion, and Imagined Community
Conclusion
Biography
James Stacey Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey, USA. He is the author of Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics (2012), Practical Autonomy and Bioethics (2009), Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative (2005), and Markets with Limits (2022). He is the editor of The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death: New Essays (2013) and Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and Its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy (2005).
"Overall, Taylor's book is well argued, clearly written, very accessible, and creative . . . [It] will be interesting to anyone who works in the debate about commodification and the ethics of markets, and it will also be interesting to bioethicists who work in sectors where compensation is prohibited for bodily services. Given that the book is not overly technical, it can be read by anyone with basic familiarity with bioethics."
Samuel Director in Bioethics
