ArticleJournal of medical ethics2003
Commodification and exploitation: arguments in favour of compensated organ donation.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- An Even Fairer Exchange: Further Reasons Why Living Kidney Donors in England Should Be Financially Compensated.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2025Article
- How a compensated kidney donation program facilitates the sale of human organs in a regulated market: the implications of Islam on organ donation and sale.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2022Article
- Commodification of biomaterials and data when funding is contingent to transfer in biobank research.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2021Review
- What Money Cannot Buy and What Money Ought Not Buy: Dignity, Motives, and Markets in Human Organ Procurement Debates.The Journal of medical humanities · 2019Article
- Does organ selling violate human dignity?Monash bioethics review · 2017Article
- Paid organ donation.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2011Article
- Compensated living kidney donation: a plea for pragmatism.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2010Article
- Should health care professionals encourage living kidney donation?Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2007Article
- Black markets, transplant kidneys and interpersonal coercion.Journal of medical ethics · 2006Article
- Organ trafficking: scope and ethical dilemma.Current diabetes reports · 2005Review
- The Magnitude of the Health and Economic Impact of Increased Organ Donation on Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease.MDM policy & practiceArticle
- A review of the possibility of adopting financially driven live donor kidney transplantation.International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of UrologyReview
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Abstract
This paper takes the view that compensated donation and altruism are not incompatible. In particular, it holds that the arguments against giving compensation stand on weak rational grounds: (1) the charge that compensation fosters "commodification" has neither been specific enough to account for different types of monetary transactions nor sufficiently grounded in reality to be rationally convincing; (2) although altruism is commendable, organ donors should not be compelled to act purely on the basis of altruistic motivations, especially if there are good reasons to believe that significantly more lives can be saved and enhanced if incentives are put in place, and (3) offering compensation for organs does not necessarily lead to exploitation-on the contrary, it may be regarded as a necessity in efforts to minimise the level of exploitation that already exists in current organ procurement systems.
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