Blinkered objections to bioethics: a response to Benatar

J Med Ethics. 2005 Mar;31(3):179-81; author reply 180-1. doi: 10.1136/jme.2004.010322.

Abstract

In a recent commentary, S R Benatar criticised the debates over organ donation and kidney selling for being located within a "narrow and inadequate framework". Benatar levels four charges against those who engage in the current organs debate: that they myopically focus on saving lives; that they accept the dominance of market orientated approaches to health care; that they reify individualism, and that they engage in limited moral arguments. Given the importance of the organs debate it is imperative that the misunderstandings of it on which Benatar's criticisms are based are dispelled. Accordingly, I will consider and reject each of his objections in turn.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Bioethics*
  • Ethical Analysis
  • Global Health
  • Human Rights
  • Humans
  • Public Health
  • Tissue Donors*