ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationship between kidney markets and communities. It also focuses on community and kidney markets, or the lack thereof, in USA and India, and on a special-interest community called the International Transplant Community (ITC). Most of the arguments against legalizing kidney markets, are variations on the theme that commodifying the human body is fundamentally incompatible with human dignity and equality, which, in turn, are necessary for community. The chapter explains that the ITCs continued opposition to kidney markets, in spite of the bans tragic consequences and violation of potential sellers and buyers liberty, is best explained by the psychology of community membership and the phenomenon of moral entrapment. Ironically, the chapter is the attempt to save people from exploitation or coercion by banning kidney markets that has led to the unimaginably high levels of exploitation and coercion in underground kidney deals.
