The Ethics of National and International Organ Markets

Sigrid Fry-Revere () and Bahar Bastani
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Sigrid Fry-Revere: SOS (Solving the Organ Shortage) Project

Journal of Social Sciences (COES&RJ-JSS), 2014, vol. 3, issue 2, 286-300

Abstract: Ethical considerations in determining whether a human organ market could exist without causing exploitation of vulnerable populations may depend on the size of the market. Some ethical and religious considerations are culture dependent; others require legal structures to protect fundamental human rights. Both these factors suggest that an ethical market in human organs may be feasible, but not necessarily in every country or across national boarders.

Keywords: Human Organs; Transplantation; Organ Trafficking; Global Market in Human Organs; Ethics; kidney shortage; bioethics; medical ethics; medical anthropology; social policy; comparative religion; cultural ethnography. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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