Below are links to articles that are both for and against organ donor incentives.  We hope that offering both sides of the debate will lead to a deeper understanding of the issues.

Aaronson, Andrew J., MD, MBA, MPH (Supports Compensation)

Transplant Tourism
American Medical Association of Journal of Ethics; May 2008
Sally Satel and Andrew Aaronson, MD

Berman, Robby, MPA, MBA (Supports Compensation)

Buying kidneys is moral Dec 11 2009
YNET Dec 11 2009; Robby Berman

Buying Kidnesy is only Odious to those who don’t need them to live
Jerusalem Post, October 17, 2005; Robby  Berman

Lethal Legislation
Kennedy School Review; 2005; Robby Berman

Selling Organs Should Be Legal August 10 2005
Jerusalem Post; August 10 2005; Robby Berman

Letter to the Editor Critical of Robby Berman’s Position
Jerusalem Report; Yaakov Blau, November 18, 2005

The Case For Selling Human Organs
Sept 1, 2009; The Jewish Week; Robby Berman

Danovitch, Gabriel, MD (Does Not Support Compensation)

Who Cares? A Lesson from Pakistan on the Health of Living Donors
American Journal of Transplantation 2008; 8: 1–2; 22 April 2008

Kidney Vending: The “Trojan Horse” of Organ Transplantation
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology; October 4, 2006

The doctor–patient relationship in living donor kidney transplantation
Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension 2007, 16:503–505

Is altruistic-directed living unrelated organ donation a legal fiction?
Nephrol Dial Transplant (2008)

From Helsinki to Istanbul: What can the transplant community learn from experience in clinical research?
Nephrol Dial Transplant (2008) 23: 1089–1092

Living Donor Kidney Donation in the United States: Quo Vadis?
American Journal of Transplantation 2010; 10: 1345–1346

Delmonico, Frank, MD (Does not support Compensation)

Transcript of Debate Between Dr. Delmonico and Dr. Epstein

Hakim, Nadey, MD (Supports Compensation)

‘What’s wrong with selling kidneys?’
International Herald Tribune | June 20, 2008; Sally Satel & Nadey Hakim

Hippen, Benjamin, MD (Supports Compensation)

Organ Sales and Moral Travails: Lessons from the Living Kidney Vendor Program in Iran
Cato Policy Analysis No. 614, Cato Institute; March 20, 2008; Benjamin Hippen

When Altruism is Not Enough: The Worsening Organ Shortage and What it Means for the Elderly
Elder Law Journal; April 2007; Sally Satel, Benjamin Hippen

Code Red
Sally Satel & Benjamin Hippen

Editorial
The International Society of Nephrology

Organ Sales and Moral Travails Lessons from the Living Kidney Vendor Program in Iran
Policy Analysis, Cato Inst., March 20, 2008

Kissling, Frances, Ph.D. (Supports Compensation)

Whadday Have to Do to Get a Kidney Around Here?
Salon.com; March 27, 2009; Frances Kissling

Postrel, Virginia (Supports Compensation)

Donor: The surgery was simple; the process is another story, By Virginia Postrel
USA Today | October 25, 2006

Satel, Sally, MD (Supports Compensation)

 

Cutting Human Lives: What should we make of Arizona’s new law for rationing organ transplants?
By Sally Satel, Slate, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010

Allowing informed donors to sell organs will save thousands of lives each year
By Sally Satel and Mark J. Perry; March 5, 2010 / 19 Adar 5770;  www.Jewishworldreview.com

‘What’s wrong with selling kidneys?’; Sally Satel & Nadey Hakim
International Herald Tribune | June 20, 2008

When Altruism is Not Enough: The Worsening Organ Shortage and What it Means for the Elderly
Elder Law Journal; April 2007; Sally Satel, Benjamin Hippen

Transplant Tourism
American Medical Association of Journal of Ethics; May 2008
Sally Satel and Andrew Aaronson, MD

A Gift of Life with Money with Money Attached
New York Times; Dec 21, 2009; Sally Satel

‘What’s wrong with selling kidneys?’
International Herald Tribune | June 20, 2008; Sally Satel & Nadey Hakim

The Limits of Bioethics: Where the profession ends and politics begins
Policy Review | February/March 2010

Kidney Mitzvah: Israel’s remarkable new steps to solve its organ shortage.
Slate | January 27, 2010

A ‘Gift of Life’ With Money Attached
New York Times | December 21, 2009

The Case for Paying Organ Donors: There is no indignity in financial gain.
Wall Street Journal | October 18, 2009

About That New Jersey Organ Scandal
Wall Street Journal | July 26, 2009

Body & Sold: It’s Time To Offer People Incentives To Donate Organs
New York Post | July 12, 2009

Steve Jobs’ Liver
Forbes | June 21, 2009

The National Kidney Foundation’s Bizarre Logic
The American | June 11, 2009

10 Questions with Sally Satel, MD
ASN Renal Express | May 20, 2009

Reward Organ Donors: Singapore’s new law is a positive step toward making the transplant market more transparent.
Wall Street Journal | April 3, 2009

How Marion Barry could help the organ shortage
Washington Examiner | March 30, 2009

Kidney for sale: Let’s legally reward the donor
The Globe and Mail | March 10, 2009

When Altruism Isn’t Moral
The American | January 30, 2009

Take My Kidney, Please
The Daily Beast | January 8, 2009

A Way to Reward Organ Donors
Forbes | October 30, 2008

Organ Failure: Doing battle with the National Kidney Foundation.
Slate | August 15, 2008

Why We Need a Market for Human Organs
Wall Street Journal | May 16, 2008

Transplant tourism: treating patients when they return to the U.S.
AMA Virtual Mentor | May 2, 2008

Code Red
Sally Satel & Benjamin Hippen
National Review Online | April 14, 2008

Desperately Seeking a Kidney
New York Times | Dec. 16, 2007

Supply, Demand, and Kidney Transplants
Policy Review | Aug/Sept 2007

Who Wants to be a Kidney Recipient?
The Huffington Post | May 29, 2007

Paying for Kidneys
Washington Post | April 30, 2007

When Altruism Is Not Enough: The Worsening Organ Shortage And What It Means For The Elderly
by Sally L. Satel and Benjamin E. Hippen
The Elder Law Journal | April 16, 2007

Doing Well By Doing Good
The Wall Street Journal | March 16, 2007

Organs for Sale
The American | Nov./Dec. 2006

Organ donations in the USA:
Recipient: A living donor let me live on, By Sally Satel

The Waiting Game: The struggle to find organ donors is more difficult with a less-than-generous public policy
In Character | May 2006

The Kindness of Strangers: And the cruelty of some medical ethicists.
The Weekly Standard | May 29, 2006

Death’s Waiting List [Unabridged Version]
The New York Times | May 15, 2006

An Internet Lifeline, in Search of a Kidney [Unabridged Version]
The New York Times | November 22, 2005

I am Responsible for the Death of Hundreds of People (Hebrew)
YNET | 10 Nov 2009

Whaddaya have to do to get a kidney around here?
Salon | 27 Mar 2009

The Case for Selling Human Organs
Jewish Week | 1 Sept 2009

Buying a Kidney is Moral
YNET | Nov. 12, 2009

Reward Organ Donors
Wall Street Journal | April 3, 2009

About that NJ Organ Scandal
Wall Street Journal | July 26, 2009

Body & Sold
New York Post | July 12, 2009

Steve Job’s Liver
Forbes | June 21, 2009

The National Kidney Foundation’s Bizarre Logic
The American | June 11, 2009

Kidney for Sale: Let’s Legally Reward the Donor
The Globe and Mail | March 10, 2009

How Marion Barry Could Help the Organ Shortage
The Examiner | March 30, 2009

Take My Kidney, Please
The Daily Beast | Jan. 8, 2009

When Altruism Isn’t Moral
The American | Jan. 30, 2009

A Way to Reward Organ Donors
American Enterprise Inst. | Oct. 30, 2008

Why We Need a Market for Human Organs
Wall Street Journal | May 16, 2008

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Survey People Support Changing the Law

 

Perioperative Mortality and Long Term Survival Following Live Kidney Donation
JAMA; March 10 2010;  Segev, Muzaale, Caffo, Mehta, Singer, Taranto, McBride, Montgomery

Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism
May 2008

Economics of the Baby Shortage
Journal of Legal Studies; Page 323-348;  1978
Elisabeth Landes and Richard Posner

For Those Who Desperately Need Organ Donations
April 2, 2009; Michael Novack

The search for organs Halachic Perspectives on altruistic giving ans selling of organs
J Med Ethics 2005; J.D. Kunin

Perioperative Mortality and Long-term Survival Following Live Kidney Donation
Dorry L. Segev, MD, PhD; Abimereki D. Muzaale, MD, MPH; Brian S. Caffo, PhD; Shruti H. Mehta, PhD; Andrew L. Singer, MD, PhD; Sarah E. Taranto; Maureen A. McBride, PhD; Robert A. Montgomery, MD, DPhilJAMA. 2010;303(10):959-966.
“Long-term risk of death wasno higher for live donors than for age- and comorbidity-matchedparticipants for all patients and also stratifiedby age, sex, and race.”

Dying people shouldn’t be beggars: Altruism as a failing medical strategy
March 14, 2010; Steve Chapman

Taking Organs from the Condemned in China – A Call to Cease
(Article in Hebrew); Harefuah; October 2006; Jacob Lavee, MD

A New Law for Allocation of Donor Organs in Israel
Lancet Journal; December 2009; Jacob Lavee, Tamar Ashkenazi, Garbiel Gurman, David Steinberg

Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets
Journal of Economic Perspectives; Summer 2007; Alvin E. Roth

Kidney Shortage Inspires A Radical Idea: Organ Sales
As Waiting List Grows, Some Seek to Lift Ban; Exploiting the Poor?
WSJ, NOVEMBER 13, 2007