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• Paid donors getting paid to give blood
  • http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/002860.html Is it a moral imperative to give blood? What about establishing a market to pay for blood, instead of appealing to altruism?
  • In Ohio, plasma donors are paid $10 for each plasma donation. $110 can be made in the first 2 weeks.
  • http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/310/6988/1159 - Patients should have no property rights over any tissue taken from them and hospitals should not make a profit from the sale or use of such material, says a report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Professor Dame Rosalinde Hurley, who chairs the working party, said: "We have concluded that organising the removal and supply of human tissue along commercial lines is unacceptable."
  • According to Kieran Healy, Princeton University,
    • Richard Titmuss's The Gift Relationship made a strong moral and empirical case against the commercial market for blood that existed in the United States prior to 1974.
    • Changes in law and government policy encouraged people to donate their blood rather than offer it for sale. Accepting the arguments of The Gift Relationship, the government tried to ensure a clean and safe supply by removing the profit motive from the blood business. However, the system's reaction to the appearance of AIDS in the U.S.between 1981 and 1983 shows that Titmuss was at best only partlycorrect. The relationship between blood organizations and the quality of supply is subtler than he realized. Emergence of HIV In US Blood Supply

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  • It was recently found in Europe that some French cosmetics contained tissue from human placentas

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