Altruism in Disrepute

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There is much evidence that the medical profession looks upon the motivation of the living organ donor with distrust and suspicion. If he is genetically related to the recipient, it is the family who is suspected of exerting undue pressure. If he is unrelated and not connected to the recipient by any emotional ties, he is suspected of being mentally ill or emotionally unbalanced, and almost all transplant centers will exclude him a priori from donation. By contrast, a substantial proportion of the public, especially among the young and well educated, consider the use of the living organ donor — even for saving strangers — to be a reasonable procedure and one for which they themselves might volunteer.

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