Paying for Plasma: Commodification, Exploitation, and Canada's Plasma Shortage

A private, for-profit company has recently opened a pair of plasma donation centres in Canada, at which donors can be compensated up to $50 for their plasma. This has sparked a nation-wide debate around the ethics of paying plasma donors. Our aim in this paper is to shift the terms of the current d...

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Main Authors: Vida Panitch, Lendell Chad Horne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Programmes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal 2019-03-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Bioethics
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Online Access:https://cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-rcb/article/view/100