Miriam Schulman Selling Human Kidneys Summary

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Schulman Selling Human Kidneys Summary “Kidneys for Sale: A Reconsideration” written by Miriam Schulman, tells the story about a time when she was an assistant director for the Santa Clara University. She has once published, an article about kidneys and organs being for sale? In this article Schulman explains, about the ethical issues that are raised by a market in human body parts. This article has people asking for advice on what to do if they wanted to sell their own organs. There are, three things that has impacted Schulman’s story they are shortages of donated organs, commodification of human life, and organ not doing any harm. The first impact on Schulman’s story, is the shortages of donated organs. She explains, that since March 6 of 2012, the total number of people waiting for organs “was 113,143 with the 91,015 people waiting for kidneys.” Schulman is trying to tell the reader, that people sale their own organs and kidneys because they want some money, but people need to realize that selling body parts is actually illegal in all states of the United States. In fact, selling body …show more content…

Schulman explains, how people live years later after the “human transplant”. However, “donors” are to do no harm to people. For example, if someone fells harm and the other person feels good that one person have no harm to their body parts, and the other will feel the pain and suffering. Schulman says, a “kidney donation from a living donor is relatively safe procedure as a safe procedure while the body functions with one kidney”. For instance, if the majority rate for the patient’s kidney to be removed goes high it would affect the patient. Schulman states, that “the risk of a donation is similar to major surgery, such as bleeding”. Kidney donations, cannot save a person’s life, but it develop into serious problems effecting one’s

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