Tag Archives: blood donation

prizes, payments, and donating blood

This old post, on the moral sta­tus of donat­ing blood, still attracts a trickle of Google searches to this blog. I won­der who the searchers are — per­haps peo­ple try­ing to get moti­vated to donate, peo­ple try­ing to ratio­nal­ize not donat­ing, or bio­med­ical ethics paper writ­ers? Any­way, I hadn’t donated blood in over six months …

May 20, 2010 – 6:00 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, biomedical ethics, ethics, makes me stabby | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

on the moral status of donating blood

Yes­ter­day, I went and gave some blood. This got me think­ing about the moral sta­tus of donat­ing blood. It’s got to be either oblig­a­tory or supereroga­tory. You might recall these def­i­n­i­tions from my pre­vi­ous post on boy­cotting mar­riage: Oblig­a­tory: If an action is morally oblig­a­tory, that means that you must do it, from the moral …

July 9, 2009 – 9:03 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, biomedical ethics, ethics | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)