Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political theoretical premises, or understandings of special moral concerns, such as permissible uses of the body, which have a long history of analysis. The essays compass the views of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Mill and Christianity, as well as particular methodological approaches, such as the phenomenology of the body, natural law theory, legal theory and libertarian critique of legal theory. These discussions cluster a number of conceptually independent philosophical concerns: (1) What is the appropriate understanding of the relationship between persons and their bodies? (2) What does it mean to `own' an organ? (3) Do governments have moral authority to regulate how persons use their own body parts? (4) What are the costs and benefits of a market in human organs? Such questions are related by an urgent public health challenge: the considerable disparity between the number of patients who could significantly benefit from organ transplantation and the number of human organs available for transplantation. This volume explores the theoretical, normative, and historical foundations for alternative policies for procurement and transplantation of human organs.
Produktkennzeichnungen
Herausgeber
Mark J. Cherry Electrical
ISBN-10
0792357019
ISBN-13
9780792357018
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61217600
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Sprache
Englisch
Anzahl der Seiten
420 Seiten
Verlag
Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherland
Publikationsname
Persons And Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships
Autor
Mark J. Cherry
Format
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsjahr
1999
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Inhaltsbeschreibung
Hc Runder Rücken Kaschiert
Item Length
24cm
Item Height
2cm
Item Width
16cm
Nummer Innerhalb der Serie
60
Buchreihe
Philosophy And Medicine
Item Weight
793g
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