The morality of an internet market in human ova

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 311-321

  White, Amy E ^a  

^a Ohio University Zanesville   (United States)

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EID: 34548687915     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10790-007-9047-y     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Thomas Magnell, "Collapsing Goods in Medicine and the Value of Innovation," Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 40, Nos. 2-3 (2006), p. 158.
2. See L. Belkin, "Pregnant with Complications," New York Times Magazine 26 October, 1997, p. 38.
3. See Thomas Murray, "New Reproductive Technologies and the Family,"in C. B. Cohen, New Ways of Making Babies: The Case of Egg Donation (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1996.
4. Ibid.
5. See, New York State Task Force, Assistive Reproductive Technologies: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy (New York, N. Y.: The New York State Task Force on Life and The Law, 1998).
6. Claudia Kalb, "Ethics, Eggs and Embryos," Newsweek 20 June., 2005, p. 25.
7. See, Kerry Howley "Ova For Sale," Reason October, 2006, p. 23.
8. See Bonnie Steinbock, "Payment for Egg Donation and Surrogacy," The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 1, 2004.
9. See, Kerry Howley "Ova For Sale," Reason October, 2006, p. 20.
10. Ibid., p. 21.
11. Ibid, pp. 19-27.
12. Magnell, op. cit., p. 157.
13. See Jeffery Kahn, "Can We Broker Eggs Without Making Omelets," American Journal of Bioethics 1, 2001, pp. 14-15.
14. See Bonnie Steinbock, op. cit.
15. Ibid., p. 258.
16. Debora Spar, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception (Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation 2006), p. 43.
17. See Claudia Kalb, " Ethics, Eggs and Embryos," Newsweek 20 June., 2005, p. 25.
18. Ibid., p. 25.
19. See Bonnie Steinbock, op. cit.
20. See Eliza Truitt, "Egg Donation: A Risky Business," Rolling Stone 26 October, 2000, p. 852.
21. See Helen Pearson, "Health Effects of Egg Donation May Take Decades to Emerge," Nature 442, 2006.
22. See Claudia Kalb, "Ethics, Eggs, and Embryos," Newsweek 20 June., 2005, p. 25.
23. Ruth Macklin, "What is Wrong with Commodification?" in C. B. Cohen, New Ways of Making Babies: The Case of Egg Donation (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 298
24. Ibid., p. 298.
25. Cynthia Cohen, "Selling Bits and Pieces of Humans to Make Babies: The Gift of the Magi Revisited," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 24, (1999), p. 291.
26. Susanne Holland, "Contested. Commodities at Both Ends of Life: Buying and Selling Gametes, Embryos, and Body Tissues," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 11 (2001), p. 263.
27. Cynthia Cohen, op. cit., p. 291.
28. See Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans., H.J Paton (Harper and Row, New York, N.Y.: 1964).
29. Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, Mary Gregor ed., (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 124.
30. Ibid., p. 177.
31. See Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, trans., Louis Infield (New York, N.Y.: The Century Company, 1930), p. 130.
32. See Mario Morelli, "Commerce in Organs: A. Kantian Critique," Journal of Social Philosophy 30 (1999), pp. 315-324.
33. See James Stacey Taylor, Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets In Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative (Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2005), pp. 154-155.
34. See Ruth Richardson and Brian Hurwitz, "Donors' Attitudes Towards Body Donation For Dissection," Lancet 346 (1995).
35. See Cynthia Cohen, "Selling Bits and Pieces of Humans to Make Babies: The Gift of the Magi Revisited," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 24, (1999), p. 291.
36. Ibid., p. 291.
37. See Bonnie Steinbock, op. cit., p. 260.
38. See M.H. Johnson, "The Culture of Unpaid and Voluntary Egg Donation Should Be Strengthened," British Medical Journal 314 (1997).