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Should Compensation for Organ Donation Be Allowed?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

Arthur Caplan
Affiliation:
Division of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Rosamond Rhodes*
Affiliation:
Bioethics Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
*
*Corresponding author. Email: Rosamond.Rhodes@mssm.edu

Abstract

The need for organs to transplant is clear. Due to the lack of transplants, people suffer, they die, and the cost of taking care of them until they die is huge. There is general agreement that it would be good to increase the supply of organs in order to meet the demand for organ transplantation.

Type
The Great Debates
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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