Where it Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation

This article focuses on ethical issues surrounding the selling and buying of human organs. The author argues that most people who sell their organs (mainly kidneys) in India do so in order to pay already existing debts. The transaction is only temporarily an exchange of “life for life,” and most “do...

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Main Author: Cohen, Lawrence (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 2003
In: Zygon
Year: 2003, Volume: 38, Issue: 3, Pages: 663-688
Further subjects:B scars
B Debt
B Transaction
B Medical Ethics
B kidneys
B India
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