ArticleJournal of medical ethics1999
Altruism, blood donation and public policy: a reply to Keown.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Exploitation, Criminalization, and Pecuniary Trade in the Organs of Living People.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2021Article
- Generation Y and Blood Donation: The Impact of Altruistic Help in a Darwiportunistic Scenario.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2010Article
- Commercial agencies and surrogate motherhood: a transaction cost approach.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2005Article
- Commodification and exploitation: arguments in favour of compensated organ donation.Journal of medical ethics · 2003Article
- Babies, child bearers and commodification: Anderson, Brazier et al., and the political economy of commercial surrogate motherhood.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2000Article
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Abstract
This is a continuation of and a development of a debate between John Keown and me. The issue discussed is whether, in Britain, an unpaid system of blood donation promotes and is justified by its promotion of altruism. Doubt is cast on the notions that public policies can, and, if they can, that they should, be aimed at the promotion and expression of altruism rather than of self-interest, especially that of a mercenary sort. Reflections upon President Kennedy's proposition, introduced into the debate by Keown, that we should ask not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country is pivotal to this casting of doubt. A case is made for suggesting that advocacy along the lines which Keown presents of an exclusive reliance on a voluntary, unpaid system of blood donation encourages inappropriate attitudes towards the provision of health care. Perhaps, it is suggested, and the suggestion represents, on my part, a change of mind as a consequence of the debate, a dual system of blood provision might be preferable.
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