Overview
- The first book to systematically study the types of incentives for organ donation: honorary, compensationalist, familist
- The only book dealing with incentives and disincentives in organ donation across culturally different societies
- Bring together a group of top scholar from Beijing, Chicago, Tehran and Hong Kong on the issue of organ donation ethics
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 133)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
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Hong Kong Papers
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About this book
This book provides the first systematic study on three types of incentives for organ donation. It covers extensive research conducted in four culturally different societies: Hong Kong, mainland China, Iran and the United States, and shows on the basis of the research that a new model of incentives can be constructed to enhance organ donation in contemporary societies. The book focuses on three types of incentives: honorary incentives, commonly adopted in the United States and other Western countries by offering things such as a thank-you card and a memorial park for donors to encourage donations motivated by pure altruism; compensationalist incentives, adopted in the Islamic Republic of Iran to encourage donation by providing monetary compensation to unrelated living donors for appreciating their altruistic contribution of donation; and familist incentives, implemented in Israel and mainland China to provide priority to organ transplantation to donors and/or their family members. The book demonstrates that a new model of incentives must go beyond offering only one type of incentives and should rather include different types of incentives that are practically effective, politically legitimate and ethically justifiable for particular societies. This implies that suitable incentive measures may vary from society to society to optimize organ donation. This book provides a clear reference for both the scholars and practitioners in the field of organ transplantation, as well as for general readers interested in bioethics and health care policy.
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Book Title: Incentives and Disincentives in Organ Donation
Book Subtitle: A Multicultural Study among Beijing, Chicago, Tehran and Hong Kong
Editors: Ruiping Fan
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29239-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29238-5Published: 03 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29241-5Due: 03 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29239-2Published: 02 May 2023
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 296
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Ethics