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Radio 3,10 Oct 2011,45 mins

Organ Donation

Night Waves

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As the Nuffield Council on Bioethics publishes a report on donating human bodily material for medicine and research, Anne McElvoy asks how far should society go in encouraging us to donate bodily material? Is it acceptable to offer people money? And what is the role of the government and others in responding to the demand for bodily material?

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