Payment for organ donation: unacceptable or a possible solution?

Drukker, Alfred

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“…3 However, with the aid of the Internet, efforts in this country to increase the number of available organs, especially for renal transplantation, have provided a new lens for review of this old debate. 4 These new developments highlight the choices we face in our health care system today. Given the affordability challenges of a burgeoning health care system and the unraveling health care safety net, the timeliness of this article on the issues of the market in organs could not be more propitious.…”

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Markets in Health Care: The Case of Renal Transplantation

Brennan

2007

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Markets in Health Care: The Case of Renal Transplantation

Brennan

2007

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Commercial living non-related organ transplantation: a viewpoint from a developed country

Hoyer

2006

Pediatr Nephrol

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In developed countries, the use of living unrelated donors is restricted to purely altruistic donors who have a close and emotional relationship with the recipients. By law, commercial transplantation is illegal. Increasing shortness of donors, the excellent results of kidney transplants from spousal and living unrelated donors as well as the very low risk for the donor has been used as an argument for paid organ donation. Arguments in favour are the relief of donor-organ shortage, short waiting times for renal transplantation, economic benefits for the donor as well as the economic benefits for society by reducing the costs of dialysis by more transplants. Major arguments against are exploitation of the donor, coercion, and a growing black market. Despite the fact that different societies have different norms or reproaches that we are failing our patients and accept the death of thousands, kidney trade has created an environment of corruption and commercialisation, which brings even the cadaver transplant program into disrepute. However, denying the existence of paid organ donation does not contribute to solve the problem. A public discussion about consequences of changing ethics and human rights, rather than pragmatic solutions, is needed.

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Related and unrelated living donor transplantation

Mehls

Baum

2006

Pediatr Nephrol

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Payment for organ donation: unacceptable or a possible solution?

Cited by 3 publications

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Markets in Health Care: The Case of Renal Transplantation

Markets in Health Care: The Case of Renal Transplantation

Commercial living non-related organ transplantation: a viewpoint from a developed country

Related and unrelated living donor transplantation

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