Go Out and See What the People Are Doing

Wertheimer, Jack

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“…Exploitation comes in several varieties, but two dimensions are particularly useful for our purposes: (1) harmful versus mutually advantageous exploitation, which will turn on whether "both parties (the alleged exploiter and the alleged exploitee) reasonably expect to gain from the transaction as contrasted with the pre-transaction status quo" and (2) consensual versus non-consensual exploitation. 37 Let us assume, momentarily, that transplant tourism involves consensual exploitation -a matter I discuss below -and ask what follows.…”

Section: A Exploitation and Undue Inducementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transplant Tourism: The Ethics and Regulation of International Markets for Organs

Cohen¹

2013

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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"Medical Tourism" is the travel of residents of one country to another country for treatment. In this article I focus on travel abroad to purchase organs for transplant, what I will call "Transplant Tourism." With the exception of Iran, organ sale is illegal across the globe, but many destination countries have thriving black markets, either due to their willful failure to police the practice or more good faith lack of resources to detect it. I focus on the sale of kidneys, the most common subject of transplant tourism, though much of what I say could be applied to other organs as well. Part I briefly reviews some data on sellers, recipients, and brokers. Part II discusses the bioethical issues posed by the trade, and Part III focuses on potential regulation to deal with these issues.

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Section: A Exploitation and Undue Inducementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transplant Tourism: The Ethics and Regulation of International Markets for Organs

Cohen¹

2013

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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“…49 Furthermore: at a certain interval between the flashes 50 the observers reported that they saw a motion without a moving object -this was what Wertheimer called the "φ-phenomenon". 51 Now, when Wertheimer examines the stroboscopic effect, he wants to understand what it means to see movement in general, not just clarify a perceptual curiosity. Starting, as he writes, with an "illusion" in order to understand perception as such, he is an advocate of phenomenological method: first we must examine "the psychologically given," and only afterwards ask what physical fact corresponds to it.…”

Section: The Constancy Hypothesis Refutedmentioning

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Incarnated Meaning and the Notion of Gestalt in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology

Foultier¹

2015

Chiasmi International

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Although it is well known that Gestalt theory had an important impact on Merleau-Ponty's philosophy throughout his career, there is still no detailed study either of its influence on his ideas or of his own understanding of the notoriously polysemic notion of Gestalt. Yet, this notion is a key to Merleau-Ponty's fundamental project of overcoming "objective thought" and its inherent dichotomies. By indicating how signification or ideality can be immanent in, rather than opposed to, matter, it compels us to redefine both consciousness and the world it is bound up with. The aim of this article is to clarify Merleau-Ponty's notion of Gestalt against the historical background that he refers to, including Kurt Goldstein's theory of the organism that was crucial for his interpretation.Although the importance of Gestalt theory for Merleau-Ponty is widely acknowledged, no one has yet examined its influence on his philosophy in detail. More often than not, monographs on his general thought mention its significance, but rather parenthetically, and the concept of Gestalt, with the related notions of form and structure, in Merleau-Ponty is rarely analysed against this background. 2 Moreover, the Gestalt theorists are sometimes made to include thinkers such as the neurologist Kurt Goldstein, 3 whose work was without doubt of great significance for Merleau-Ponty in this context, but precisely in that Goldstein criticised certain basic tenets of Gestalt theory.

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“…43 In an ideal market, competition among buyers and sellers will push the prices of goods and services to the point where they approximate production costs, and these transaction terms represent the fair market price of goods and services. 44 The production costs of labor are, quite simply, the living expenses of the laborer. Thus, offers of employment that pay less than a living wage exploit the laborer.…”

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A Living Wage for Research Subjects

Phillips¹

2011

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Offering cash payments to research subjects is a common recruiting method, but this practice continues to be controversial because of its potential to compromise the protection of human subjects. Federal regulations and guidelines currently allow researchers to pay subjects for participation, but they say very little about how much researchers can pay their subjects. This paper argues that the federal regulations and guidelines should implement a standard payment formula. It argues for a wage payment model, and critically examines three candidates for a base wage: the nonfarm production wage, the FLSA minimum wage, and a living wage. After showing that the nonfarm production wage is too high to satisfy ethical criteria, and the minimum wage is too low, this paper concludes that the wage payment model with a base wage equivalent to a living wage is the best candidate for a standard payment formula in human subjects research.

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Go Out and See What the People Are Doing

Cited by 6 publications

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Transplant Tourism: The Ethics and Regulation of International Markets for Organs

Transplant Tourism: The Ethics and Regulation of International Markets for Organs

Incarnated Meaning and the Notion of Gestalt in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology

A Living Wage for Research Subjects

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