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Reimbursement, ‘rewarded gifting’, financial incentives and commercialism in living organ donation

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Procurement, Preservation and Allocation of Vascularized Organs

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Organ transplantation is among the most impressive achievements of modern biomedicine. The field has gained clinical maturity in only four decades, but this very rapid rate of development has resulted in disparities between technology on the one hand and the handling of its implications on the other. The very success of transplantation has raised important societal concerns. In the future some other area may become the main issue, but today the main issue is organ shortage. The shortage may be relative, but the problem is world-wide and is increasing. Its ramifications are still evolving. Honest individuals and teams throughout the world are working hard to find solutions to the shortage problem while unscrupulous individuals and teams are exploiting the shortage to enrich themselves. This chapter is an attempt to distinguish the work of the former from that of the latter.

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  1. Department of Transplantation, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA

    G. M. Collins

  2. Transplantation Pavillon V, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France

    J. M. Dubernard

  3. Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    W. Land

  4. Eurotransplant Foundation, Leiden, The Netherlands

    G. G. Persijn

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Daar, A.S., Gutmann, T., Land, W. (1997). Reimbursement, ‘rewarded gifting’, financial incentives and commercialism in living organ donation. In: Collins, G.M., Dubernard, J.M., Land, W., Persijn, G.G. (eds) Procurement, Preservation and Allocation of Vascularized Organs. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5422-2_37

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