Should donors or their families be compensated for organ donations?
Matas AJ. Design of a regulated system of compensation for living kidney donors, Clin Transplant, Minneapols: University of Minnesota, 2008.
The journal was established two years ago and was purposely addressing the issue on pros and cons associated with the financial incentive for the organ donors. Though a proposal was made, up to the present moment there is nothing that has been done so far and this is endangering the life of organ donors. The author has also extensively reasoned out the importance of organ donation. He says that saving life is an aspect that should be embraced by all people with intensity and enthusiasm.
The author is succinctly proposing a latent system which will see to it that there will be a regulated system for compensating the living donors. The author has also appealed to the government and also to the insurance agencies to provide compensation to the living donors. He has majored out the main reason in considering the financial incentives to the living donors to be effectively looked into for others suffer and die while still waiting to be compensated upon.
The journal is relevant to the study as it has established the need for compensating of the families and the donors of the organ transplant. The journal has emphasized on the need of the legal system to be involved in the organ transplant system. Legally, compensation ought to be made to the organ donors as this should be regarded as an exchange of consent from either the donor or the family.
Michelle Goodwin. Black Markets: The supply and demand of body parts .New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 294pp. $30 cloth
In this journal, professor Michelle Goodwin caries out a systematic review on the common ways that the United States has undertaken on the organ donation and transplant and how it has impacted some effects on the potential donors and beneficiaries. He has mainly taken a focus on the African American prospective donors. In essence, Goodwin has focused on the various ways on which the African American donors are debilitated by the present system and how they will step out and claim for their benefits in concern the organ system transplant.
Goodwin argues about the introduction of a system in America which could support the importance of advancing compensation to the organ donors and the families at large. He stands out and maintains that introducing a system into the legislative should not be debated upon for it has already been in practice into the black market. Besides the journal explanation on the significance of compensation to the donors and families, it also depicts on the particular role of the Black Americans as the organ donors and the beneficiaries.
In his explanation, Goodwin has challenged the system that is being applied in America in compensating the families and the organ donors. His compares organ donation in US with slavery. Organ donation in US has been left on the hands of the Africans living in US as other communities regard this as a risky decision in life. Therefore, it would be advisable for one to donate an organ without explicitly expecting anything in return. This is because the process is done at a voluntary or free will as no one is influenced to carry out the process. The journal broadly supports the ideology as to why organ donors and their families should be compensated.
David L. Kaserman “The U.S. Organ Procurement System: A Prescription for Reform (Evaluative studies), Washington DC: AEI Press, 2003.
In this book, Kaserman and Barnett’s introduce the organ transplant on an economical and as a social issue. The authors present some of the fundamental issues within US organ procurement System platform that prescribes a reform that should be taken in enhancing efficiency in the procurement system. The issues which should be evaluated within this system, comprises of the technology to be incorporated into the system.
Ethics in the Medical field should also be considered in order to carry out the practice as per the standards of practitioners. In the book, the authors have depicted the major strengths which they have mainly focused on the crucial fiscal ideas and their importance to resonance social procedure. Technology has brought changes in the procurement of organs from the organ donors. Between 1988 -1999 there have been an anticipated number of individuals in direct shortage of organ transplant. On the Broader part, the author sends appeals to help in modifying some of the procurement ways, for instance, civil education to people over the importance of not selling the organs.
The authors cite a relevant example of a congress which was established in 1972. In this congress the program provided federal funding for kidney patients. The funding increased the effectual demand for kidney transplant by providing third party payment and by keeping many more potential transplants beneficiaries alive for quite a considerable amount of time. The funding also led to an enhancement in development in more private and public institutions that which offered education on the importance of retaining natural organs in the body.
Using a basic welfare analysis, authors winds up that the transplant candidates (current and potential), organ donors (actual and potential), and the people who finance patient care will gain from a market alternative. It is unclear whether hospitals, physicians, other caregivers and the institutions that coordinate the procurement and allocation gain or lose.
On balance, Kaserman and Barnett argue that a market system for the procurement of transplant organs provides net benefits to society. The book is well related to the topic of discussion which proposes whether their should be compensation for the donor givers and their beneficiaries.
Laura K. Egendorf “Organ Donation (Opposing Viewpoints)“. Washington DC: Cengage, 2003.
From his book, Laura has compromised the issue and is therefore against the compensation of the donors and the families. He narrates that, before the year 1968, there were no laws which could deal with the federals laws and the tissue donation. Before the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act of 1968 (AGA), organ and tissue donations were handle at the state level only. This was not very successfully as legal laws varied greatly from one state to another.
The Anatomical Gift of life was aimed at addressing some organ related problems which have not been addressed by the laws governing the physiology of a person. Laura also aimed at addressing the issue on the significance of donating the organ to those in need of their help. This is a voluntary service and will enhance a recovery of those that have suffered a great deal from lack of functional organs. The main issue being discussed in this context is the enormous demand for the human organ in places where the organs supply would be of greater significance to the livelihood of an individual. The author says that in ensuring a supply of usable organs. The laws in the context have opposed the idea of compensating the donors on the organ transplant.
The book does not explicitly support the context of the discussion question and therefore comprises the issues over the why the donors and their families should not be compensated upon even after organ donation. The author stresses on the importance of having restrictions over the compensation of the organ donors. This is because some have taken this as a business.
The author has emphasized on the importance of valuing oneself. The valuable consideration of ones body organs should not be comparable to any amount that may be regarded as having a reasonable pay. Also there is controversy issue who should be the right person to receive the payments, is it the family, donating avenue or the administrative law?
J Med Ethics, .Commodification and exploitation: arguments in favor of compensated organ donation, London: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2010.
The article has been of importance to the study as has sufficiently answered the question. Basing my arguments in favor of the compensation to the families and the donor himself, the compensation should also be essential as it will help in taking a cover in the insurance companies. The cover will support the medical practitioners in case some compensation is needed. The information provided by the author is very relevant as it also provides the consequences which might be encountered by an individual in his or her lifetime, for instance ,lack of compensation may lead to a subsequent growth of an observable shortage of cadaveric organs.
Works Cited
Matas AJ. Design of a regulated system of compensation for living kidney donors, Clin Transplant, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2008.
Michelle Goodwin. Black Markets: The supply and demand of body parts .New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
David L. Kaserman “The U.S. Organ Procurement System: A Prescription for Reform (Evaluative studies), Washington DC: AEI Press, 2003.
Laura K. Egendorf “Organ Donation (Opposing Viewpoints)“. Washington DC: Cengage, 2003.
J Med Ethics, .Commodification and exploitation: arguments in favor of compensated organ donation, London: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2010
