Organ Procurement: The Ethical Obligation to Release Organs

In David Boonin, Katrina L. Sifferd, Tyler K. Fagan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Michael Huemer, Daniel Wodak, Derk Pereboom, Stephen J. Morse, Sarah Tyson, Mark Zelcer, Garrett VanPelt, Devin Casey, Philip E. Devine, David K. Chan, Maarten Boudry, Christopher Freiman, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shelley Wilcox, Jason Brennan, Eric Wiland, Ryan Muldoon, Mark Alfano, Philip Robichaud, Kevin Timpe, David Livingstone Smith, Francis J. Beckwith, Dan Hooley, Russell Blackford, John Corvino, Corey McCall, Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo, Michael Shermer, Ole Martin Moen, Aksel Braanen Sterri, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Jeppe von Platz, John Thrasher, Mary Hawkesworth, William MacAskill, Daniel Halliday, Janine O’Flynn, Yoaav Isaacs, Jason Iuliano, Claire Pickard, Arvin M. Gouw, Tina Rulli, Justin Caouette, Allen Habib, Brian D. Earp, Andrew Vierra, Subrena E. Smith, Danielle M. Wenner, Lisa Diependaele, Sigrid Sterckx, G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Harisan Unais Nasir, Udo Schuklenk, Benjamin Zolf & Woolwine (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Springer Verlag. pp. 717-734 (2018)
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Abstract

The most common and public mode of addressing procurement of organs has traditionally taken one of two lines. The most widely accepted approach to raising the procurement rate has been an appeal to charity. The other has been one of commodification—an economic appeal or market-based mode. Each side in this debate has put forth strong reasons why the other fails as an acceptable strategy to procure organs, but ultimately, neither puts forth sufficient support for its own position. This chapter argues that the call to relinquishing organs upon our deaths can easily be understood as an “ordinary” obligation and may be even more pointedly seen as a moral obligation. As such, not to release our organs for transplantation constitutes a serious moral wrong.

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