Bloody Bioethics

This is the first book to argue in favor of paying people for their blood plasma. It does not merely argue that offering compensation to plasma donors is morally permissible. It argues that prohibiting donor compensation is morally wrong-and that it is wrong for all of the reasons that are offered against allowing donor compensation.

Autorentext

James Stacey Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey, USA. He is the author of Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics (2012), Practical Autonomy and Bioethics (2009), Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative (2005), and Markets with Limits (2022). He is the editor of The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death: New Essays (2013) and Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and Its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy (2005).

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Compensating Plasma Donors Is Safe and Effective

2. Donor Compensation and Informed Consent

3. Coercion, Force, Autonomy, and Consent

4. Exploitation

5. Donor Exploitation

6. Social Cohesion and Donor Approbation

7. Contamination, Cohesion, and Imagined Community

Conclusion