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is a sensible rule (such as a ban on organ sales) whereby small exceptions to it, through state shenanigans, become in practice the rule.

After a period of strict prohibition, Cohen notes, most Authorization Committees tended to allow the exception to the ban on organ sales to become the rule, placing organ sales in a structure of formal legality. An 'ethics of the exception' is forged through a specific relationship between state practice, biomedicine, transplant doctors, and the committees that regulate them. (in Collier and Lakoff 2004)

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