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20th August 2019

Organ donation part 4/4 – Making transplant organs

If current organ donation systems don’t adapt, alternative solutions to the global organ shortage will hopefully emerge from biotechnology. Making organ donation work? Organ shortage is costly in terms of human lives, public expenditure and lost productivity […]

Biomedicine 3 min read
13th August 2019

Organ donation part 3/4 – The futures that never happened

Futures contracts for donations after death appear to ease major ethical concerns in the debate about payment for human organs. Yet, such proposals are incompatible with current law.

Biomedicine 1 min read
6th August 2019

Organ donation part 2/4 – Which incentives are there?

It has been argued for decades that meaningful incentives are needed for substantially more individuals to donate organs. Existing and hypothetical approaches to improve organ supply are outlined below.

Biomedicine 4 min read
30th July 2019

Organ donation part 1/4 – No profit for the supplier

Thanks to ever increasing medical capabilities, organ transplantation has become an established life-saving therapy. However, demand for organs exceeds supply because altruistic donations are the only legal source in most countries. This means that in this chain […]

Biomedicine 4 min read

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