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Organ transplantation depends on a display of public confidence. Health authorities have the duty to protect public confidence against any action that would put in doubt the quality of the health services offered and/or the ethical issues connected with the health services. On the other hand, there has been a period of access to the practice of “transplantation on the free market”, something which creeping its way in to several countries and which will hopefully come to an end shortly. Our aim is to present another aspect of commercialism, more complicated than usual, and in which conflicting evidence has been presented at different periods; this aspect will also be ending soon.
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Koniavitou-Hadjiyannaki, K. et al. (1991). The Ugly Head of Commercialism in Organ Transplantation in Greece. 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_30
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