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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Organ Markets and the Ends of Medicine

F. Daniel Davis

Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

Samuel J. Crowe

Office of Science Policy, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, USA

Address correspondence to: F. Daniel Davis, Ph.D., 5513 Nebraska Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, USA. E-mail: fdanieldavis{at}gmail.com


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As the gap between the need for and supply of human organs continues to widen, the aim of securing additional sources of these "gifts of the body" has become a seemingly overriding moral imperative, one that could—and some argue, should—override the widespread ban on organ markets. As a medical practice, organ transplantation entails the inherent risk that one human being, a donor, will become little more than a means to the end of healing for another human being and that he or she will come to have a purely instrumental value. With the establishment of organ markets, not only will the harms of instrumentalization be a reality—the ends of medicine will be further compromised and confused.

Keywords: bodily integrity, dignity, ends of medicine, organ markets, organ transplantation

The arguments presented in this essay do not represent the views or policy of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the federal government of the United States.


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