Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Incentives to Increase the Rate of Organ Donations from the Living: A Moral Exploration

This paper examines the morality of schemes of payment to live donors/sellers of organs for transplantation. Following empirical and historical evidence, it is argued that consent to sell organs is substantially different from consent to ordinary business transactions and that legalization of exchan...

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Main Author: Michael Y. Barilan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rambam Health Care Campus 2011-04-01
Series:Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://rmmj.org.il/(S(fj42v4lvhi00ond1zq4lvavr))/Pages/ArticleHTM.aspx?manuId=105