RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The kidney trade: or, the customer is always wrong.
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 120
OP 123
DO 10.1136/jme.16.3.120
VO 16
IS 3
A1 B Brecher
YR 1990
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/16/3/120.abstract
AB Much of the opinion scandalized by recent reports of kidneys being sold for transplant is significantly inconsistent. The sale of kidneys is not substantially different from practices espoused, and indeed endorsed, by many of those who condemn the former. Our moral concern, I suggest, needs to focus on the customer's actions rather than the seller's; and on the implications for larger questions of the considerations to which this gives rise.