Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation

James Stacey Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey, USA. He is the author of Bloody Bioethics: Why Prohibiting Plasma Compensation Harms Patients and Wrongs Donors (2022), Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics (2012), Practical Autonomy and Bioethics (2009), Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative (2005/2017), and Markets with Limits (2022). He is the editor of The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death: New Essays (2013), and Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and Its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy (2005).Mark J. Cherry is the Dr. Patricia A. Hayes Professor in Applied Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, St. Edwards University, USA. He is Editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Senior Editor of Christian Bioethics, and Editor-in-Chief of HealthCare Ethics Committee (HEC) Forum. He is the author of Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market (2005/2015), Sex, Family and the Culture Wars (2016), and Bioethics After God: Morality, Culture, and Medicine (2024).

• Foreword: Twenty Years of Moral Arguments 1. Selling Human Organs for a Profit: Saving Lives, Reducing Suffering, and Freeing Resources Part 1: Arguments in Favor 2. WHO Says Countries Should be Self-Sufficient in (Unremunerated) Organs and Blood 3. The Presumptive Case for Organ Markets 4. Kidney Sales, Since Everyone Benefits Part 2: Arguments Against 5. Living Donation, Identity Formation, and the Virtue of Cost-Neutrality: A Renewed Defense of NOTA’s Prohibition against Selling and Buying Bodily Organs 6. Paternalism, Feasibility, and the Regulation of Controversial Markets 7. Distributive Justice and Controversial Markets Part 3: Philosophical Puzzles and Moral Pluralism 8. Integrative Pluralism: Spurring More Debates on Relating and Configuring Medicine, Morals, and Markets