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Date of Publication: January 04, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2017.036
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The unfair trade: Why organ sale is indefensible
Abstract:
This paper argues against the proposal of a system of compensated living donation in the global south, especially India, without recourse to essentialist ethics. It relies on the anti-essentialist ethical-ontology of Levinas for the claim that it is the concrete vulnerability of the suffering other, rather than any absolute moral imperative, that makes a market for organs unethical.
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