Organ/tissue gifting differs from commodification in the sense that anonymity and social trust are emphasized to reduce the offer and request of monetary compensation.
Commodification places an economic value on an environmental resource which seeks to include and internalise the costs of using it within economic calculations.
Theorists use a commodification framing in order to contest the perspectives of market environmentalism, which sees marketization as a solution to environmental degradation.
Researchers from various disciplines have analyzed and critiqued the idea of organ gifting and this belief that gifting and organ commodification are mutually exclusive.
