Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.46672/aet.8.1.4

Organs: An Untapped Source

Walter E. Block orcid.org/0000-0003-2215-4791 ; Loyola University New Orleans
Tristin Gaspard orcid.org/0000-0003-0183-8836 ; Loyola University New Orleans

Abstract

A willing seller and buyer voluntarily agree upon the price for the exchange of X dollars for one Y widget. The trade satisfies some of their human wants. Both parties are better off for having made the profitable exchange or they would not have transacted. Once the Y widget becomes a life-saving organ, like a kidney, all bets are off according to the present prohibition on life-saving trades between two parties seeking to better themselves through an exchange. We contend that organs sourced from their willing owners seeking to sell part of themselves for a price present hitherto untapped life-saving trades that should be legalized forthwith.

Keywords

transplants; organ markets; economic freedom; medical ethics

Hrčak ID:

279681

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/279681

Publication date:

27.6.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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