SOCIOL 173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Organ Transplantation, Life Insurance, Moral Economy
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Social guidelines, pointers: organs, gifts, and organizations. Made organ transplants possible & more successful organ transplant as cure. Medical procedures + drugs = possibilities demand for organs has increased how to procure more organs? (demand supply problem) Not useful, misses the point, which is empirical rather than normative: exchange system in human organs = a carefully differentiated set of relationships; how to procure organs in morally appropriate ways (rather that should we or shouldn"t we) Money: expressive role form of payment (not cash at the time of sale") and amount of payment = reimbursement without direct payment; money as incentive without presenting it as an incentive. ), ongoing relationship between social organizations of human goods industry and cultural legitimacy of practices. Irony: the success of the gift framework of donation ( gift of life," morally worthwhile act) makes it difficult to introduce market element in donation practices. Journalistic accounts, public understanding: focus on individual donors, motivations, altruism.
