The ethics of organ selling: a libertarian perspective

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1.	Title	Title of document	The ethics of organ selling: a libertarian perspective

2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	Harold Kyriazi; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburg, PA, 15261; US

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4.	Description	Abstract	As a libertarian, I believe that people own themselves. Any alternative would involve some form of slavery. And as owners of themselves, individuals have the right to sell their organs, give them away, and even to allow themselves to be 'harvested' of their organs in a productive form of suicide, for whatever reason they choose. (Of course, surgeons and hospitals would be free to denounce, and to refuse to perform, such macabre procedures, and medical societies would be free to expel members who assist in such suicides.) Having said that, I also wish to emphasise that I share the concerns expressed by bioethicist Stephen G Post, of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Center for Biomedical Ethics

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7.	Date	(YYYY-MM-DD)	2016-11-30

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