[Extract] The Commonwealth government has today announced a 'grant' scheme for live organ donors. The scheme will pay live organ donors the minimum wage for six weeks following donation, with the aim of supporting them financially. Such a decision is likely to ignite the debate over the morality of payment for 'transactions' involving the human body. There are two sides to this debate: the risk of commodification of the human; and the freedom and autonomy of donors to choose how they deal with their body
The idea of paying donors in order to make more human bodily material available for therapy, assiste...
ABSTRACT. Free and informed consent is generally acknowledged as the legal and ethical basis for liv...
In America alone almost 100,000 people are suffering while waiting for organ transplants, and more t...
There are thousands of desperate people globally who need a kidney fortransplantation. The number of...
For decades, the dominant view among biomedical ethicists, transplantation professionals, and the pu...
This paper takes the view that compensated donation and altruism are not incompatible. In particular...
This review moves beyond a critique of Cherry\u27s study to incorporate a radical new way of thinkin...
This study examines arguments for and against the sale of human organs for transplantation by explor...
The legalization of markets in human organs would save lives. Human lives matter. Therefore, weshoul...
This article follows the recent publication of the Organs for Donation Task Force report, "Organs fo...
Introduction. Two opposing views of the human body have existed since time began. Can it be traded o...
[Extract] Legal regulation of transactions in the human body is in one sense a new phenomenon. Tradi...
Financial incentives for organ donation (from living or brain-dead donors) have been considered ethi...
This article addresses the growing organ shortage in America, analyzes current donation and procurem...
This paper explores the issue of donation of organs from deceased donors for transplantation into a ...
The idea of paying donors in order to make more human bodily material available for therapy, assiste...
ABSTRACT. Free and informed consent is generally acknowledged as the legal and ethical basis for liv...
In America alone almost 100,000 people are suffering while waiting for organ transplants, and more t...
There are thousands of desperate people globally who need a kidney fortransplantation. The number of...
For decades, the dominant view among biomedical ethicists, transplantation professionals, and the pu...
This paper takes the view that compensated donation and altruism are not incompatible. In particular...
This review moves beyond a critique of Cherry\u27s study to incorporate a radical new way of thinkin...
This study examines arguments for and against the sale of human organs for transplantation by explor...
The legalization of markets in human organs would save lives. Human lives matter. Therefore, weshoul...
This article follows the recent publication of the Organs for Donation Task Force report, "Organs fo...
Introduction. Two opposing views of the human body have existed since time began. Can it be traded o...
[Extract] Legal regulation of transactions in the human body is in one sense a new phenomenon. Tradi...
Financial incentives for organ donation (from living or brain-dead donors) have been considered ethi...
This article addresses the growing organ shortage in America, analyzes current donation and procurem...
This paper explores the issue of donation of organs from deceased donors for transplantation into a ...
The idea of paying donors in order to make more human bodily material available for therapy, assiste...
ABSTRACT. Free and informed consent is generally acknowledged as the legal and ethical basis for liv...
In America alone almost 100,000 people are suffering while waiting for organ transplants, and more t...