title: The unfair trade: Why organ sale is indefensible.
abstract: This paper argues against the proposal of a system of compensated living donation in the global south, especially India, without recourse to essentialist ethics. It relies on the anti-essentialist ethical-ontology of Levinas for the claim that it is the concrete vulnerability of the suffering other, rather than any absolute moral imperative, that makes a market for organs unethical.
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India., kgsiby@iitb.ac.in.
authors.forename: Siby K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: George
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D003906:Developing Countries; D028663:Ethical Theory; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D019520:Living Donors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics*