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Incentives and Disincentives in Organ Donation

A Multicultural Study among Beijing, Chicago, Tehran and Hong Kong

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Editors:
  1. Ruiping Fan

    1. Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Toward a New Model of Incentives for Organ Donation

      • Ruiping Fan
      Pages 3-21

  4. Chicago Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. The Concepts and Development of Organ Donation Policy in the United States

      • Wan-Zi Lu, J. Michael Millis
      Pages 71-81

    3. Interviews in Chicago

      • Wan-Zi Lu, J. Michael Millis
      Pages 83-102

    4. Ethical Considerations About Three Incentive Models Based on Research in Chicago

      • Wan-Zi Lu, J. Michael Millis
      Pages 103-117

  5. Tehran Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. The Kidney Transplantation Program in Iran

      • Mitra Mahdavi-Mazdeh, Ellen Sepanian, Anna Maliwat
      Pages 121-132

    3. Interview Findings in Relation to Organ Donation in Iran

      • Mitra Mahdavi-Mazdeh, Ellen Sepanian
      Pages 133-151

    4. A Comment on the Barriers to and Incentives for Organ Donation in Iran

      • Mitra Mahdavi-Mazdeh, Anna Maliwat
      Pages 153-170
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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.


Reviews

“This book provided an in-depth analysis of challenges and opportunities in the ethical, cultural, social, and legal of organ donation around the world. … This book particularly emphasized the uniqueness and challenges faced by the incentive models … and advocated the adoption of comprehensive incentive strategies and customized policies based on different cultural backgrounds. Additionally it also proposed recommendations for further research and policy formulation. This work … provided important theoretical support for the improvement of organ donation policies worldwide.” (Wang Shuai, Chinese Medical Ethics, Vol. 37 (1), January, 2024)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Ruiping Fan

About the editor

Ruiping Fan received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Rice University. He is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Public & International Affairs at the City University of Hong Kong. He also serves as Co-Editor of the International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine (Hong Kong), Associate Editor for both the Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (USA) and the Chinese Medical Ethics (PRC), and on the Editorial Board of the Philosophy and Medicine book series (via Springer). His research focuses on Confucian bioethics, Chinese and comparative philosophy, and ethics and public policy. In addition to over 180 journal articles and book chapters (100 in English and 80 in Chinese) published, he has also authored Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West (in English, 2010) and Contemporary Confucian Bioethics (in Chinese, 2011). He was the editor or co-editor of Confucian Bioethics (in English, 1999), Confucian Society and the Revival of Dao (in Chinese, 2008), the Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China (in English, 2011), Confucian Constitution and China’s Future (in Chinese, 2012), Ritual and the Moral Life (in English, 2012), Confucian Constitutional Order (in English, 2013), Family-oriented Informed Consent: East Asian and American Perspectives (in English, 2015), Building Chinese Bioethics: New Explorations (in Chinese, 2017), Building Chinese Bioethics: Combating the Covid Pandemic (in Chinese, 2020), and Sex Robots (in English, 2021).    

Bibliographic Information

  • 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

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