1st Edition
Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation Controversy and Contention
Foreword: Twenty Years of Moral Arguments James Stacey Taylor and Mark J. Cherry
1. Selling Human Organs for a Profit: Saving Lives, Reducing Suffering, and Freeing Resources Mark J. Cherry and James Stacey Taylor
Part 1: Arguments in Favor
2. WHO Says Countries Should be Self-Sufficient in (Unremunerated) Organs and Blood Kimberly D. Krawiec and Alvin E. Roth
3. The Presumptive Case for Organ Markets Ilya Somin
4. Kidney Sales, Since Everyone Benefits Luke Semrau
Part 2: Arguments Against
5. Living Donation, Identity Formation, and the Virtue of Cost-Neutrality: A Renewed Defense of NOTA’s Prohibition against Selling and Buying Bodily Organs Andrew Flescher
6. Paternalism, Feasibility, and the Regulation of Controversial Markets Julian J. Koplin and Neera Bhatia
7. Distributive Justice and Controversial Markets Andreas Albertsen
Part 3: Philosophical Puzzles and Moral Pluralism
8. Integrative Pluralism: Spurring More Debates on Relating and Configuring Medicine, Morals, and Markets Ryan Gillespie
Biography
James Stacey Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey, USA. He is the author of Bloody Bioethics: Why Prohibiting Plasma Compensation Harms Patients and Wrongs Donors (2022), Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics (2012), Practical Autonomy and Bioethics (2009), Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative (2005/2017), 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).
Mark J. Cherry is the Dr. Patricia A. Hayes Professor in Applied Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, St. Edwards University, USA. He is Editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Senior Editor of Christian Bioethics, and Editor-in-Chief of HealthCare Ethics Committee (HEC) Forum. He is the author of Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market (2005/2015), Sex, Family and the Culture Wars (2016), and Bioethics After God: Morality, Culture, and Medicine (2024).
