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Ethics: What is a kidney worth?

ƒÞ Every day, 17 Americans die of organ failure.
ƒÞ In Israel, the average wait for a kidney transplant is four years.
ƒÞ In response, a global gray market has bloomed.

Ethical issues
ƒÞ Who owns our bodies?
ƒÞ Should it be illegal to sell an organ if it could save someone's life?
ƒÞ Utilitarian point of view
ƒÞ What is the government's role in protecting two vulnerable groups - the poor, who are willingly exploited, and the sick, who are desperate for healing?
The story of a Brazilian guy

ƒÞ Hernani Gomes da Silva is 32 years old and still lives in his mother's two-room house. Rain comes in through the roof, and cockroaches and rats scuttle across the cement floor. He has three kids, a wife who loathes him, and a mistress 20 years his senior. He is unemployed with no money, no skills, and a criminal record. The future is bleak.
The story of an Israeli man
ƒÞ Arie Pach, a stout Israeli lawyer in......

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