Blood of Sale Case Study

Blood of sale case study

     In this case, the biggest ethic problem is that we should think the sale of blood as a business or an immoral activity. The donation system in British seems to have a positive impact on the society. The Plasma Company make a great profit from sale the Africa tribe member’s blood to the Unite States.

     The Plasma Company see the potentially profitable market for safe and uncontaminated blood. They want to make a business through this field. I don’t think the blood can be counted its value by numbers. It is the priceless material like the people’s life. People who sell their blood has a strong desire for money and the company buy their blood in order to make a profit. The quality of the blood can not be guaranteed. People tell a lie about their physical health just wants to get the income. Nowadays patients contract diseases, including HIV, through transfusions. Professional donors are usually drawn from India's impoverished population and are at higher risk for HIV, hepatitis, and other diseases. It is a disaster of the patient who places the hope on the blood to become recovering. On the other hand, if we voluntary donate the blood, we just want to our donation can help somebody to tide over a difficult patch. The donors don’t want to be paid and they have a kind-hearted. The blood they donate can be more safety because there is no return on the donation of the blood. If people don’t want to help people, they will not draw blood for transfusion from themselves. There is no benefit from this process, no one would do that to hurt a patient and their family. The sale of blood interrupts the order of society. If one person sees that another one earn money from donating the blood, the person maybe will not donate their blood, because the blood becomes a commodity that can be easily purchased. The richer people may use their power to obtain the blood more quickly and hurt the poor people’s right. It is not good for the fairness.

    Another thing can be considered in this case is that the blood is unable to regenerate. Human is the only resource of blood. The Plasma Company’s business behavior may recall us about the Utilitarianism theory, it is the moral doctrine that our actions should be the best one that maximizes the good results for everyone involved in the actions. Utilitarianism interested in the benefits and consequences of actions, it is usually related to the well-being of entities, not on the character of the action itself. For utilitarians, no action itself will be considered as objectionable. It is objectionable only when it produces the unhappiness or unpleasure results. Can we just consider this business as utilitarians? In this business, the company may need a huge lab to test the virus in the blood such like HIV in the local tribe. The local trouble leader may propose a lot of rules to hinder the company’s work, the company may need to give them some money compensation in order to continue work. The weather in the rural west African tribes is extremely hot, so the blood transfer needs to under cold temperature. Airplane transportation will changer 5000 thousand per hours. They also have to innovate many methods to keep the blood fresh. Considering the total cost in the blood sales process, $25 per pint of blood sale is a reasonable price.