Bloody Bioethics: Why Prohibiting Plasma Compensation Harms Patients and Wrongs Donors Taylor James Stacey

This is the first book to argue in favor of paying people for their blood plasma. It argues that prohibiting donor compensation is morally wrong--and that it is morally wrong for all of the reasons that are offered against allowing donor compensation.Opponents of donor compensation claim that it will reduce the amount and quality of plasma obtained, exploit and coerce donors, and undermine social cohesion. It does not merely argue that offering compensation to plasma donors is morally permissible.

Prohibiting compensation thus harms patients by reducing their access to the medicines they need. James Stacey Taylor argues that empirical evidence demonstrates that compensating plasma donors greatly increases the amount of plasma obtained with no adverse effects on the quality of the pharmaceutical products that are manufactured from it. He also argues that it is the