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Ethics of paid organ donation
- Source :
- Pediatric Nephrology. 17:309-311
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2002.
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Abstract
- As the waiting list of patients requiring organ transplantation grows, there is a subtle but noticeable shift in society towards accepting organs as a commodity which can be paid for. Although nowhere is the organ trade legal, the commerce of organs goes on in different parts of the world, especially in developing countries such as India. This is largely due to societal and governmental failure to implement the existing "transplant laws". It is high time the medical profession ceased being an accomplice to this unscrupulous trade, which exploits the poor, deters altruism retarding the living-related and cadaver transplant programs, commercializes the human body and jeopardizes human dignity.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Organ trade
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
Commerce
Developing country
Legislation
Altruism
Tissue Donors
Organ transplantation
Dignity
Nephrology
Personal Autonomy
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Development economics
Humans
Medicine
Ethics, Medical
Organ donation
business
Developing Countries
health care economics and organizations
Autonomy
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1432198X and 0931041X
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatric Nephrology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1f0414cd558792f1219d0e663aed0506