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- Title
MERCANTILIZAÇÃO DE ÓRGÃOS HUMANOS PARA TRNASPLANTES INTERVIVOS SOB A ÓTICA DA BIOÉTICA SOCIAL.
- Authors
Hellmann, Fernando; Finkler, Mirelle; Verdi, Marta
- Abstract
Buying and selling human organs for transplants from living donors has been discussed worldwide in the bioethical debate and it is becoming a public health problem. This essay discusses, in light of the Social Bioethics, arguments used to justify such practices, which are related to the common good, moral plurality, autonomy and individual freedom. Such justificatory aspects assume liberal and utilitarian characteristics. They present the possibility of double standard, do not consider social vulnerability, and harm dignity and human rights by evidencing an apology to the market laws. Thus, the justifications for buying and selling human organs for transplantations intervivos eventually turn the body, or part of it, into a commodity.
- Subjects
ORGANS (Anatomy); COMMERCIALIZATION; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; BIOETHICS; PUBLIC health; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability
- Publication
Revista Internacional Interdisciplinar INTERthesis, 2012, p123
- ISSN
1807-1384
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5007/1807-1384.2012v9n2p123