Georgetown ethicist Peter Jaworski discusses the global plasma shortage and myths surrounding plasma donation.

Few details have been released on the incidents, however Health Canada has accepted the new numbers

The ideal of the unpaid blood donor is nearly universal; the practice is more complicated. Whole-blood systems around the world preserve a formal commitment to

The new WHO blood report lets us grade the world’s blood systems according to whether patients get the blood they need. If we apply that test to plasma for fractionation, the rankings turn upside-down

A recent survey of economists by the Clark Center for Global Markets at Chicago Booth offers a useful snapshot of how economists think about living-donor kidney transplantation — and, more…

Demand growing for immunoglobulin to address immune deficiencies that can result from cancer treatment

And commercial plasma donation is not less safe than non-commercial donations

And commercial plasma donation is not less safe than non-commercial donations

In the classroom, Peter Jaworski teaches business ethics. Outside of class, he applies ethics to an entirely different world: blood plasma.

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Kathleen McLaughlin investigates the multibillion-dollar global plasma industry

Filmmaker Penny Lane joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss her film “Confessions of a Good Samaritan,” in which she documents donating a kidney to a stranger and how the process was “really hard...

ModifyNota.org is the coalition working to improve kidney donation through fair compensation. Join us to save lives and address the shortage of transplant kidneys in the United States.

Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics brings together recent work on the topic of exploitation from philosophy, political science, and economics in one volume, organized ...

Blood plasma is essential for meeting the medical and therapeutic needs of vulnerable patients. This paper compares the main models of plasma collection used around the world, and finds that a commerc...