Marketing
Body Parts
Articles in "Taking Sides"
"Should
There Be a Market in Body
Parts?" Levine, Carol. Taking Sides: Bioethical
Issues,
eleventh
edition.
Issue Summary:
- YES:
Philosopher J. Radcliffe-Richards and colleagues of the
International
Forum for Transplant Ethics contend that bans on selling
organs remove
the only
hope of the destitute and the dying. Arguments against selling
organs
are weak
attempts to justify the repugnance felt by people who are rich
or
healthy.
(from "The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales", The Lancet, June
27, 1998
).
- NO:
Historian David J. Rothman asserts that trafficking in organs
for
transplantation is motivated by greed and subverts the ethical
principles of
the medical profession. (from "The International Organ
Traffic", The New
York Review
of
Books, March 26, 1998)