Why and How to Compensate Living Organ Donors: Ethical Implications of the New Australian Scheme

The Australian Federal Government has announced a two-year trial scheme to compensate living organ donors. The compensation will be the equivalent of six weeks paid leave at the rate of the national minimum wage. In this article I analyse the ethics of compensating living organ donors taking the Aus...

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Main Author: Giubilini, Alberto (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Bioethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 283-290
IxTheo Classification:KBS Australia; Oceania
NCH Medical ethics
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B living organ donations
B organ payments
B Commodification
B Exploitation
B transplants
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