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Voluntarism, which is defined as acting of one’s own free will, the condition of unconstrainedness, or acting intentionally in the Concise Oxford Dictionary [1], forms the basis of all transplant procedures where rules exist to control such procedures. We insist on voluntariness because transplant donation is an intrinsically charitable act: societies which support the development of transplantation have generally refused to assign a monetary value to transplantable organs or tissues.
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Sells, R.A. (1991). Voluntarism of Consent in Both Related and Unrelated Living Organ Donors. In: Land, W., Dossetor, J.B. (eds) Organ Replacement Therapy: Ethics, Justice Commerce. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76444-8_3
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