The kindness of strangers: Organ transplantation in a capitalist age

The topic of organ transplantation is examined from the perspective of thre e authors: Robert Bellah, Jeremy Rifkin, and Margaret Jane Radin. Introduce d by reflections on the development of the justification of organ transplan tation within the Roman Catholic community and the various themes raised by the historical study in Richard Titmuss's The Gift Relationship, the paper examines how and in what ways the possible commodification of organs will affect our society and the impacts this may have on the supply of organs.