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J Med Ethics 2005;31:179-181 doi:10.1136/jme.2004.010322
  • Global medical ethics

Blinkered objections to bioethics: a response to Benatar

  1. J Taylor
  1. Correspondence to:
 J S Taylor
 Department of Philosophy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA; jtayl25lsu.edu
  • Received 14 August 2004
  • Accepted 6 September 2004

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.

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