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Ethics: What is a kidney worth?
?Þ Every day, 17 Americans die of organ failure.
?Þ In Israel, the average wait for a kidney transplant is four years.
?Þ In response, a global gray market has bloomed.
Ethical issues
?Þ Who owns our bodies?
?Þ Should it be illegal to sell an organ if it could save someone's life?
?Þ Utilitarian point of view
?Þ 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
?Þ 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
?Þ Arie Pach, a stout Israeli lawyer in failing health, sees his future flash before him.
?Þ In February 2002, Arie's doctors told him his kidneys were beginning to falter.
?Þ By early 2003, he has had minor surgery to prepare for dialysis
Contradiction
?Þ The expense of dialysis to the healthcare system - about $45,000 to $50,000 per year.
?Þ Only some 10 percent of dialysis patients live more than 10 years, according to the US National Center for Health Statistics.
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