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Why We Should Not Pay for Human Organs
Author(s) -
Delmonico Francis L.,
ScheperHughes Nancy
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9744.00528
Subject(s) - opposition (politics) , perspective (graphical) , organ transplantation , underclass , transplantation , business , law and economics , medicine , political science , sociology , law , surgery , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science
The right to buy and sell human organs is challenged by the authors within the framework of a broad Christian perspective. Opposition to organ sales is argued in the light of the developing underclass of poor organ donors throughout the world who sell their organs to the rich. Very often neither the donors nor the recipients are fully informed about the medical risks involved in the procedure of organ transplantation.