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Rewarded Gifting and Rampant Commercialism in Perspective: Is There a Difference?

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Organ Replacement Therapy: Ethics, Justice Commerce

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I consider the question of rewarded gifting as one of the most important ethical issues facing the transplant world today: it has enormous practical implications for the worldwide practice of transplantation, especially that of kidneys. I feel at once both privileged and daunted to have been given the task of dissecting the question of whether there is a difference between “rewarded gifting” and rampant commercialism.

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  1. Department of Surgery College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 32485, Al Khod Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

    A. S. Daar

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  1. Abteilung für Transplantationschirurgie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Klinikum Großhadern, 8000, München 70, Germany

    Walter Land

  2. Joint-Faculties Bioethics Project, 222, 11420 University Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J3, Canada

    John B. Dossetor M. D.

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Daar, A.S. (1991). Rewarded Gifting and Rampant Commercialism in Perspective: Is There a Difference?. 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_27

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