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The Kindness of Strangers: Organ Transplantation in a Capitalist Age
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 11, Number 3, September 2001
- pp. 285-303
- 10.1353/ken.2001.0027
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The topic of organ transplantation is examined from the perspective of three authors: Robert Bellah, Jeremy Rifkin, and Margaret Jane Radin. Introduced by reflections on the development of the justification of organ transplantation within the Roman Catholic community and the various themes raised by the historical study in Richard Titmuss's The Gift Relationship, the paper examines how and in what ways the possible commodification of organs will affect our society and the impacts this may have on the supply of organs.