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Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market by Mark Cherry. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005. 274 pp. $26.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2007

Griffin Trotter
Griffin Trotter
Affiliation:
The Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University, Missouri
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There is no greater paradox in bioethics than its tendency to constantly rediscover, in every conceivable venue, that the only way to honor and preserve the dignity and freedom of huddled, exploited masses is to trim away their decisional authority and appoint panels of well-educated, rational thinkers (such as bioethicists) to lay down the reasonable options for them. Bioethics cannot claim to be the first field to impugn the rationality of the oppressed as a means of upholding their dignity. But it certainly has claims on bringing this process toward its ultimate perfection.

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CQ Review
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 356 - 358
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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