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Organ markets and the ends of medicine.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  19880547     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
As the gap between the need for and supply of human organs continues to widen, the aim of securing additional sources of these "gifts of the body" has become a seemingly overriding moral imperative, one that could-and some argue, should-override the widespread ban on organ markets. As a medical practice, organ transplantation entails the inherent risk that one human being, a donor, will become little more than a means to the end of healing for another human being and that he or she will come to have a purely instrumental value. With the establishment of organ markets, not only will the harms of instrumentalization be a reality-the ends of medicine will be further compromised and confused.
Authors:
F Daniel Davis; Samuel J Crowe
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2009-10-30
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of medicine and philosophy     Volume:  34     ISSN:  1744-5019     ISO Abbreviation:  J Med Philos     Publication Date:  2009 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2009-11-20     Completed Date:  2010-02-08     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7610512     Medline TA:  J Med Philos     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  586-605     Citation Subset:  E; IM    
Affiliation:
Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. fdanieldavis@gmail.com
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Commerce / ethics*
Health
Humans
Living Donors / ethics*,  psychology
Personal Autonomy
Philosophy, Medical*
Tissue Donors / supply & distribution
Tissue and Organ Procurement / economics,  ethics*,  organization & administration

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