PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Autopsy, Commodification, Futures Exchange
14 Mar 2018
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Black market organ sales reflect an extreme inequality of the buyers and sellers : organ transfers typically follow patterns of nonwhite to white, poor to wealthy, and move from third to first world nations. The organ market, in its current state, disproportionately receives its supply from the most disadvantaged and this only serves to increase their reification. This also has the effect of providing a service that should be made available to the most needy to the most wealthy. Markets do not simply involve individuals engaging exchanges, but establish the conditions and contexts making such exchanges possible. The normalization of an organ market would likely create a climate in which those who did not wish to participate would be penalized. Were kidneys valued as an asset to list as collateral for loans those not wishing to participate in such markets could be denied loans or provided loans at an exorbitant rate.
