ABSTRACT
Although the recent development of immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporine-A and OKT3 have greatly increased the success rate of organ transplantation, there is still a chronic shortage of suitable organs available for transplantation.1 Although various remedies for this shortage have been proposed,2 the suggestion that it should be alleviated through legally allowing a current market in organs to exist has received almost universal moral condemnation.3 Much of this condemnation is based on the view that allowing such a current market will undermine the autonomy of those who would participate in it as vendors.4 Against this, Gerald Dworkin has recently argued that rather than undermining the autonomy of those who would participate in them as vendors, such markets will actually enhance it, for to allow persons to sell their organs will enable them to exercise a greater degree of control over their bodies.5
