UNRELATED DONATION SYSTEM AND BIOCAPITALISM
The article discusses what modern organ donation practices are in the context of the development of biocapitalist approaches to the human body and biomaterials. It has been shown that the non-disappearing shortage of donor organs, which is characteristic of modern medicine, not only encourages doctors to look for new ways to obtain sources of donor organs, but also encourages the rest of society to search for new models of self-organization that can cover this shortage with available resources. Based on the ideas of Kaushik Sander Rajan and Paul Virilio, the authors of the article show that the successful development of transplant medicine depends primarily on creating an effective system of organ donation, which should be adaptive to the requirements of society and medical professionals. The donor system includes the “hard” (infrastructure) and “soft” (laws, funding, organizational aspects) parts. The authors of the article also conclude that the development of unrelated donation makes an important contribution to overcoming organ shortage, and unrelated donation itself can be legitimate in conditions of rationalization of the donor system.