PHILOS 2D03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Legal Organ Market: Organ Donation
16 Mar 2018
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Readings 22 debra satz the integrity of the body . Thus: perhaps legalizing kidney sales decreases altruistic donation and at the same time increases the net supply of organs. For some people, kidney sales is objectionable because it is a desperate exchange: an exchange no one would ever make unless faced with no reasonable alternative. Defender of organ markets could argue: worries about exploitation can e addressed through regulation, to make organ donation legal only in context in which people are not likely to be desperately poor, weak agency. Ideal markets involve fully informed participants but many markets do not function on this basis: sometimes market transactions involve consequences that can be known only in the future. Problem: the poor in developing countries who sell their kidneys have no health insurance and no claim on an additional kidney if their remaining one fails to function properly.
