Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Swain, Margaret S., and Randy W. Marusyk. Life choices: a Hastings Center introduction to bioethics. Ed. Joseph H. Howell and William F. Sale. Second ed. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown UP, 2007. Print.

http://books.google.com/books?id=59lktthaUUMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false

The section in the book starting on page 484 is written by Swain and Marusyk.  The section is titled, "An Alternative to Property Rights in Human Tissues."  The section makes suggestions to the ownership problem.  They assess the problem that people want to use tissues for profit.  In the past, tissues has little of no monetary value, but no it does.  The article makes an argument that involes the type of economy we have.  The United States has a free market economy, but the property issue proposes ideas geared for a commercial market economy.  Who gets to own the tissues?  There have been many court cases involving this question, but there is no particular set of rules or laws that each case must follow.  Therefore, each case must be examined individually.  The decision in one case is different in other cases.  The question is still unanswered.  This section states that the best option is to come to a decision as to whether or not property rights should be honored in humans.  The solution presented is to allow no property rights tobe given to any one person, but to have the tissue placed in the trust of  physician or medical staff .

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