Andreas Albertsen

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Organ markets are always the best option The world faces an organ shortage, resulting in thousands of deaths each year. By allowing organ markets, we could increase the supply of organs, thereby saving many lives and enriching many organ sel...

My reply is to this article by Perry Hendricks
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Happy that my reply on organ markets and the limits of the best option argument has been accepted in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
The piece clarifies why appeals to “best options” do less justificatory work under unjust background conditions than is often assumed. #organmarkets #bioethics

New book chapter out in this edited volume on organ markets.

My chapter discusses theories of justice and controversial markets, focusing on how economic inequality shapes which markets are problematic.

Thanks to the editors James Stacey Taylor and Marc Cherry.
#bioethics #morallimitsofmarkets

My article on the ethics of various ways in which we might seek to mitigate organ trafficking.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I wrote an article on so-called futures markets in organs (i.e., articles where you pay people to consent to become donors).

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics This bioethics handbook offers concise, up-to-date, and easy to read chapters on a broad range of bioethical topics in the following categories: foundational co…

I wrote an introductory chapter on organ markets for this handbook
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Andreas Albertsen & Jens Jørund Tyssedal, Socialism - PhilArchive Socialism is a large and diverse political tradition, unified by opposition to capitalism. Economically, socialists also typically support common ownership or some form of social, democratic control o...

Tyssedal and I also published an introductory text to socialism
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In this article Thaysen and Sønderholm press and overinclusive objection to Simon Rippon's famous argument against organ markets:

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Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention This volume presents a comprehensive examination of one of bioethics’ most divisive debates: whether human organs should be bought and sold. It brings together diverse philosophical perspectives from ...

I published a chapter called Markets and Distributive justice in this very nice anthology:
www.routledge.com/Markets-in-H...

Another exellent #sportsethics paper by Sønderholm, on children and professional sports
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Thanks a lot. That looks like a good route!

Thanks, Johnny. That looks super cool!

Thanks Pamela. That is a really helpful comment. I do need to think about what I want and need here (and how much work I want to put into maintaining it).

That's it for my university webpage. Luckily, people can still see my work at ResearchGate, Google Scholar, etc. And good people have already suggested ways of creating my own website.

Now that I don't have an institutional affiliation, I am going to set up a website to share the work I've published over the years. Any suggestions for tools to build a simple website? #academicchatter

For an overview of my work, please see My google scholar profile:
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I don’t yet know what comes next. I’ll figure that out.
I won’t be moving abroad, but I’m open to new opportunities, conversations, and collaborations, inside and outside academia

My work has focused on political theory and ethics. With a particular focus on health care priority setting, controversial markets, discrimination, distributive justice and organ donation.

Proud of what I’ve contributed and accomplished : 55 published articles, lectures delivered, supervision of four talented PhD students, time as head of the political theory section, and several research projects led or co-led.
I’ve learned a lot and worked with wonderful people.

As the year ends, so does my contract at Aarhus University. Sad to leave after 14 years as a PhD student, postdoc, and temporary associate professor at the Department of Political Science.

Sønderholm scrutinize prevalent criticisms of professional footballlers that work in Saudi Arabia

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Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to Semrau How important is it, morally speaking, that banning the sale of organs removes the best option available to would-be organ sellers? According to a widespread argument called the best option argument, ...

This article was subject to a response. So I wrote this response
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Unjust organ markets and why it is irrelevant that selling a kidney is the best option An important argument against prohibiting organ sales is that it removes the best option available to individuals in dire circumstances. However, this line of reasoning fails to recognise that selling...

My article on best option arguments, distributive justice and organ markets
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Whorephobia on Dating Platforms: Ethical Platform Governance - Philosophy & Technology Dating platforms generally prohibit commercial sex on their platforms and warn users that they will be deplatformed if they engage in the sex market on them. Sex workers, however, report experiencing ...

Degn on why it is problematic when dating platforms exclude sex workers from using dating apps for dating

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Should we offer sentence reduction to incarcerated who donate organs ? Thaysen and I offer so reasons to be sceptical.

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Efficiency and the futures market in organs - Monash Bioethics Review There has been considerable debate over regulated organ markets. Especially current markets, where people sell one of their kidneys while still alive, have received increased attention. Futures market...

My paper on organ futures markets

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Just submitted a piece on the moral limits of markets that me and two co-authors have been working on all year. Pouring a huge whisky to celebrate.

Unequal Turnout and Political Equality - Res Publica Electoral turnout is socially unequal. The better off an elector is—in terms of wealth, income, and education—the more likely that elector is to exercise her right to vote. Empirical evidence indicate...

Excellent article on political equality by Jens Thaysen
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very happy to hear this!