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The Price Is Wrong: The Moral Cost of Living Donor Inducements
Author(s) -
Fox M. D.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2006.01579.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cost of living , environmental ethics , law and economics , actuarial science , sociology , economics , economic growth , philosophy
Dr. Fox argues that while living donors can be compensated for actual losses, the concept of compensating them in relationship to their risks amounts to a thinly veiled reward, which we are not morally ready to undertake. See also special feature article by Gaston et al in this issue on page 2548.