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January 15, 2026 • Time

How Plasma Donations are Helping to Pay Some Americans’ Bills – and Treat Patients Around the World

Featuring Peter Jaworski

There are only five countries that collect enough plasma donations domestically to meet the needs of their own patients: the U.S., Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, according to […]

September 5, 2025 • BBC World Service

America: The human plasma factory

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin needs $15,000-a-dose medication to treat her rare autoimmune condition. While she sits for hours at a time, just down the block is one of over 1000 commercial […]

March 11, 2024 • CBC

Advocacy group concerned pay-for-plasma clinics expanding to Ontario will hurt voluntary donations

A selection from the article: Peter Jaworski, a Canadian scholar, is associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and an adjunct professor at Virginia School of Law. He said paid clinics could help Canada become […]

June 22, 2023 • Niskanen Center

Jaworksi on CHQR: Commercial-compensated plasma collections

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Niskanen’s Peter Jaworski joined Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge on CHQR to discuss his recent article, “Paying for plasma: The case for commercial-compensated plasma collections.” Jaworski elaborates on how a commercial plasma […]

June 15, 2023 • Article

Liquid Gold: New Zealand’s need for compensated plasma collections

Featuring Peter Jaworski

The primary point of collecting blood plasma is to meet the medical and therapeutic needs of patients. We collect blood and plasma in order to ensure that we can preserve and promote […]

August 10, 2022 • The Globe and Mail

“Canadian Blood Services eyes getting plasma from paid donors amid supply challenges”

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Canadian Blood Services says it may for the first time work with private companies that pay people in Canada for their blood plasma.

June 24, 2022 • Routledge Books

Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests, 2nd Edition

By Jason BrennanPeter Jaworski

May you sell your vote? May you sell your kidney?

July 20, 2021 • Oxford University Press

Business Ethics for Better Behavior

By Jason BrennanWilliam EnglishJohn HasnasPeter Jaworski

A clear and concise roadmap for ethical business behavior using commonsense moral principles.

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July 20, 2021 • Plasma is Life Podcast

Plasma is life

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Peter Jaworski talks about his interest in the plasma industry and the ethics of plasma donor compensation.

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April 28, 2021 • Learn Liberty

War Sucks, What is it Good For?

Featuring Peter Jaworski

War Sucks, What is it Good For?

December 3, 2020 • Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association

Donor ethics letter submitted to the Expert Panel on Immune Globulin Product Supply and Related Impacts in Canada

By Peter Jaworski

We are professional ethicists in the fields of medical ethics, business ethics, and/or normative ethics, and academic economists who study how incentives and

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October 1, 2020 • Reason Magazine

More Countries Should Pay Plasma Donors

By Peter Jaworski

Life-saving plasma therapies are essential for many patients, but every year we flirt with a shortage.

August 27, 2020 • Econ Papers

If You Can Do It For Free, There Is Some Way to Do It For Money

By Jason BrennanPeter Jaworski

Markets without Limits defends the claim that there are no inherent limits to markets

August 18, 2020 • Social Science Research Network

The Introduction of Paid Plasma in Canada and the U.S. Has Not Decreased Unpaid Blood Donations

By Peter JaworskiWilliam English

Most countries prohibit compensation for plasma donations, and Canada continues to consider a ban.

August 18, 2020 • Social Science Research Network

The Introduction of Paid Plasma in Canada and the U.S. Has Not Decreased Unpaid Blood Donations

By William EnglishPeter Jaworski

Most countries prohibit compensation for plasma donations, and Canada continues to consider a ban.

July 27, 2020 • Secure Transfusion Services

Is Paid Plasma Crowding Out Voluntary Blood Donations? Understanding who donates and why.

By William EnglishPeter Jaworski

No significant evidence of crowding out, although individual effects do vary across cities.

May 4, 2020 • Big Think

The plasma debate: The ethics of paying for human blood

Featuring Peter Jaworski

August 27, 2019 • USA Today

What risks lie ahead for Johnson & Johnson after $572M opioid ruling?

Featuring Peter Jaworski

"Right now the brand is in the midst of a crisis, and their strategy in the past has been to deny" liability, said Peter Jaworski, an associate teaching profess

August 14, 2019 • Institute for Liberal Studies

Ep. 2 – Should Markets Have Limits?

Featuring Peter Jaworski

In episode 2 of The Curious Task host Alex Aragona speaks with Peter Jaworski about limits to markets.

July 4, 2019 • Omny Studio

Why it’s a mistake for Canada to ban paid plasma donations

Featuring Peter Jaworski

We spoke with Peter Jaworski - Assistant Teaching Professor (Ethics) - Georgetown University and co-founder - DonationEthics.com

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July 4, 2019 • The Globe and Mail

If we don’t want shortages, we should pay blood plasma donors

By Peter Jaworski

To avoid shortages and ensure security of supply, we should adopt the U.S.-like ... Peter Jaworski teaches ethics at Georgetown University's

April 27, 2019 • Words and Numbers Podcast

Episode 114: Is It Ok to Pay People for Their Blood Plasma?

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Getting paid for your blood—do you have any concerns?

April 17, 2019 • Words and Numbers Podcast

Episode 114: Is It Ok to Pay People for Their Blood Plasma?

By Peter Jaworski

Getting paid for your blood—do you have any concerns?

blood vials with protective eye glasses sitting nearby

April 10, 2019 • Vice

Ruthless Capitalists Can’t Donate Their Way Out of Trouble Anymore

Featuring Peter Jaworski

"When it comes to the Sacklers, the issue, it seems to me, is accepting gifts, rather than the money itself," agreed Peter Jaworski, an assistant teaching profe

June 13, 2018 • Canadian Business

Why we should pay Canadian donors for their blood plasma donations

By Peter Jaworski

Imagine someone said to you, “Canada of course must never allow the use of slave labour in diamond mining.

May 23, 2018 • Omny Studio

Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge: Paid Plasma

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Should plasma donors be getting paid? Peter Jaworski joins Rob to discuss.

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May 23, 2018 • Omny Studio

Paid Plasma

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Should plasma donors be getting paid? Peter Jaworski joins Rob to discuss.

woman using a centrifuge for blood samples

May 10, 2018 • The Economist

Bans on paying for human blood distort a vital global market

By Peter Jaworski

A WILLING buyer in a market with plenty of willing sellers, Barzin Bahardoust is finding life surprisingly hard.

April 10, 2018 • Scribd

The Paleo Solution – Episode 390 – Peter Jaworski – Markets

Featuring Peter Jaworski

This week on Episode 390 of The Paleo Solution Podcast we have Prof. Peter Jaworski.

March 19, 2018 • USA Today

Facebook backlash: Failure to disclose political firm’s profile access draws scrutiny

Featuring Peter Jaworski

That Facebook failed to immediately disclose the handoff of profile data by developer Aleksandr Kogan was an ethical misstep, said Peter Jaworski, a business et