A Market Price for Organs?. Issue 2 (9th January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Thomas, Rick
• Is Part Of: New bioethics. Volume 19:Issue 2(2013)
• Page Start: 111
• Page End: 129
• Publication Date: 2014-01-09
• Subjects: commodification -- ethics -- markets -- organ donation -- organs -- organ trafficking; Bioethics -- Periodicals; Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; 174.2
• DOI: 10.1179/2050287713Z.00000000032
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2050-2877

Abstract

Abstract : Has not the time fully come to lift the prohibition on a regulated market in organs for transplantation? Is there a price for such a market that would be too high to pay? The author revisits the cases for and against organ markets in the light of cultural shifts in society and asks whether the traditional insistence on altruism represents a hindrance to much needed developments or a safeguard for much valued public goods.