Debate on organ sales in Journal of Medical Ethics

The March 2014 issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics features a lively (but familiar) debate on whether it should be legal to sell kidneys. All the authors are philosophers.  (I am ready for some empirical evidence, which is of course hard to collect when existing laws are interpreted as preventing experimentation of most sorts.)
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• Imposing options on people in poverty: the harm of a live donor organ market

  • Simon Rippon

  J Med Ethics 2014;40:145-150 Published Online First: 28 June 2012doi:10.1136/medethics-2011-100318
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  Organ sales and paternalism

  • Gerald Dworkin

  J Med Ethics 2014;40:151-152 Published Online First: 19 June 2012doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100647
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  Commentary by Janet Radcliffe-Richards on Simon Rippon's ‘Imposing options on people in poverty: the harm of a live donor organ market’

  • Janet Radcliffe-Richards

  J Med Ethics 2014;40:152-153 Published Online First: 19 October 2012doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100645
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  Commentary on Simon Rippon, ‘Imposing options on people in poverty: the harm of a live donor organ market’

  • Adrian Walsh

  J Med Ethics 2014;40:153-154 Published Online First: 29 June 2012doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100646
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  Organ markets and harms: a reply to Dworkin, Radcliffe Richards and Walsh

  • Simon Rippon

  J Med Ethics 2014;40:155-156 Published Online First: 5 November 2012doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101083
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LA Times OpEd: We shouldn't treat kidneys as commodities

The distinguished transplant nephrologist Gabe Danovitch and the lawyer and medical ethicist Alexander Capron respond to the recent WSJ oped of the late Gary Becker:

We shouldn't treat kidneys as commodities by ALEXANDER M. CAPRON AND GABRIEL DANOVITCH

"buying and selling organs is a dangerous and misguided game, no matter how exalted the theorists playing it or how seemingly straightforward their calculations."
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"Turning organs into a financial commodity would undermine the safety and efficacy of the system now in place and would not necessarily increase the supply. The United States has served as a model for ethical organ transplantation, and abandoning our long-standing prohibition on buying organs would lead us into an ethical minefield with negative repercussions the world over."