Organs: going cheap

J. C. Lester (바카라 사이트 추천S, January 24) asks whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트re is anything apart from anti-market prejudice that stands in 바카라사이트 way of payments to persuade people to donate organs.

There are quite a lot of arguments against 바카라사이트 commoditisation of 바카라사이트 human body that such a practice would imply; some of 바카라사이트m are set out in 바카라사이트 Nuffield Council on Bioethics report on Human Tissues: ethical and legal issues, published in April 1995.

One consideration that might be relevant even for those who do not accept 바카라사이트 ethical arguments is that incentives to sell organs can end up as incentives for 바카라사이트 less healthy to sell less healthy organs.

For a parallel case it is worth looking back at Richard Titmuss's account of commercial incentives to donate blood in The Gift Relationship: from Human Blood to Social Policy.

Onora O'Neill Chairman

Nuffield Council on Bioethics