caa a22 4500 445798378 CHVBK 20180317145133.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11017-011-9192-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11017-011-9192-y Nelson James Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Science, Michigan State University, 324 Linton Hall, 48824, East Lansing, MI, USA aut Internal organs, integral selves, and good communities: opt-out organ procurement policies and the ‘separateness of persons' [Elektronische Daten] [James Nelson] Most people accept that if they can save someone from death at very little cost to themselves, they must do so; call this the ‘duty of easy rescue.' At least for many such people, an instance of this duty is to allow their vital organs to be used for transplantation. Accordingly, ‘opt-out' organ procurement policies, based on a powerfully motivated responsibility to render costless or very low-cost lifesaving aid, would seem presumptively permissible. Counterarguments abound. Here I consider, in particular, objections that assign a moral distinctiveness to the physical boundaries of our bodies and that concern autonomy and trust. These objections are singled out as they seem particularly pertinent to the stress I place on a distinctive benefit of the particular policy I defend. An opt-out system, resting not on the authority of ‘presumed consent' but on the recognition of a duty to one another, has the prospect of prompting people to understand more richly the ways in which they are both physically embodied and communally embedded. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Organ transplantation nationallicence Organ procurement nationallicence Opt-out nationallicence Easy rescue nationallicence Autonomy nationallicence Solidarity nationallicence Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Springer Netherlands 32/5(2011-10-01), 289-300 1386-7415 32:5<289 2011 32 11017 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-011-9192-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-011-9192-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nelson James Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Science, Michigan State University, 324 Linton Hall, 48824, East Lansing, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Springer Netherlands 32/5(2011-10-01), 289-300 1386-7415 32:5<289 2011 32 11017 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer