Articles
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.
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Andrew J. Aaronson, MD, MBA, MPH
Supports compensationRobby Berman, MPA, MBA
Supports compensation- Buying Kidneys Is MoralYnet · December 11, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Buying Kidneys Is Only Odious to Those Who Don't Need Them to LiveJerusalem Post · October 17, 2005 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Lethal LegislationKennedy School Review · 2005 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Selling Organs Should Be LegalJerusalem Post · August 10, 2005 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Letter to the Editor Critical of Robby Berman's PositionJerusalem Report · Yaakov Blau · November 18, 2005 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- The Case for Selling Human OrgansThe Jewish Week · September 1, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
Gabriel Danovitch, MD
Does not support compensation- Who Cares? A Lesson from Pakistan on the Health of Living DonorsAmerican Journal of Transplantation 2008; 8: 1–2 · April 22, 2008 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Kidney Vending: The “Trojan Horse” of Organ TransplantationClinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · October 4, 2006 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- The Doctor–Patient Relationship in Living Donor Kidney TransplantationCurrent Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension 2007, 16:503–505 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Is Altruistic-Directed Living Unrelated Organ Donation a Legal Fiction?Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation · 2008 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- From Helsinki to Istanbul: What Can the Transplant Community Learn from Experience in Clinical Research?Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (2008) 23: 1089–1092 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Living Donor Kidney Donation in the United States: Quo Vadis?American Journal of Transplantation 2010; 10: 1345–1346 PDF (opens in a new tab)
Frank Delmonico, MD
Does not support compensationNadey Hakim, MD
Supports compensationBenjamin Hippen, MD
Supports compensation- Organ Sales and Moral Travails: Lessons from the Living Kidney Vendor Program in IranCato Policy Analysis No. 614 · March 20, 2008 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- When Altruism Is Not Enough: The Worsening Organ Shortage and What It Means for the ElderlyElder Law Journal · April 2007 · Sally Satel & Benjamin Hippen PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Code RedNational Review Online · April 14, 2008 · Sally Satel & Benjamin Hippen (opens in a new tab)
- EditorialThe International Society of Nephrology PDF (opens in a new tab)
Frances Kissling, PhD
Supports compensationVirginia Postrel
Supports compensationSally Satel, MD
Supports compensation- Cutting Human Lives: What Should We Make of Arizona's New Law for Rationing Organ Transplants?Slate · December 6, 2010 (opens in a new tab)
- Allowing Informed Donors to Sell Organs Will Save Thousands of Lives Each YearJewish World Review · March 5, 2010 · Sally Satel & Mark J. Perry (opens in a new tab)
- The Limits of Bioethics: Where the Profession Ends and Politics BeginsPolicy Review · February/March 2010 (opens in a new tab)
- Kidney Mitzvah: Israel's Remarkable New Steps to Solve Its Organ ShortageSlate · January 27, 2010 (opens in a new tab)
- A ‘Gift of Life’ with Money AttachedNew York Times · December 21, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- I Am Responsible for the Death of Hundreds of People (Hebrew)Ynet · November 10, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Buying a Kidney Is MoralYnet · November 12, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- The Case for Paying Organ Donors: There Is No Indignity in Financial GainWall Street Journal · October 18, 2009 (opens in a new tab)
- About That New Jersey Organ ScandalWall Street Journal · July 26, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Body & Sold: It's Time to Offer People Incentives to Donate OrgansNew York Post · July 12, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Steve Jobs' LiverForbes · June 21, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- The National Kidney Foundation's Bizarre LogicThe American · June 11, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- 10 Questions with Sally Satel, MDASN Renal Express · May 20, 2009 (opens in a new tab)
- Reward Organ Donors: Singapore's New Law Is a Positive StepWall Street Journal · April 3, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- How Marion Barry Could Help the Organ ShortageWashington Examiner · March 30, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Kidney for Sale: Let's Legally Reward the DonorThe Globe and Mail · March 10, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- When Altruism Isn't MoralThe American · January 30, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Take My Kidney, PleaseThe Daily Beast · January 8, 2009 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- A Way to Reward Organ DonorsForbes · October 30, 2008 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Organ Failure: Doing Battle with the National Kidney FoundationSlate · August 15, 2008 (opens in a new tab)
- Why We Need a Market for Human OrgansWall Street Journal · May 16, 2008 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Transplant Tourism: Treating Patients When They Return to the U.S.AMA Virtual Mentor · May 2, 2008 (opens in a new tab)
- Desperately Seeking a KidneyNew York Times · December 16, 2007 (opens in a new tab)
- Supply, Demand, and Kidney TransplantsPolicy Review · Aug/Sept 2007 (opens in a new tab)
- Who Wants to Be a Kidney Recipient?The Huffington Post · May 29, 2007 (opens in a new tab)
- Paying for KidneysWashington Post · April 30, 2007 (opens in a new tab)
- Doing Well By Doing GoodThe Wall Street Journal · March 16, 2007 (opens in a new tab)
- Organs for SaleThe American · Nov./Dec. 2006 (opens in a new tab)
- Recipient: A Living Donor Let Me Live OnUSA Today · 2006 (opens in a new tab)
- The Waiting GameIn Character · May 2006 (opens in a new tab)
- The Kindness of Strangers: And the Cruelty of Some Medical EthicistsThe Weekly Standard · May 29, 2006 (opens in a new tab)
- Death's Waiting ListThe New York Times · May 15, 2006 (opens in a new tab)
- Death's Waiting List [Unabridged Version]The New York Times · May 15, 2006 (opens in a new tab)
- An Internet Lifeline, in Search of a KidneyThe New York Times · November 22, 2005 (opens in a new tab)
- An Internet Lifeline, in Search of a Kidney [Unabridged Version]The New York Times · November 22, 2005 (opens in a new tab)
Miscellaneous
Research & reference- Poll: Americans Show Support for Compensation of Organ DonorsNPR · May 16, 2012 (opens in a new tab)
- Perioperative Mortality and Long-Term Survival Following Live Kidney DonationJAMA · March 10, 2010 · Segev, Muzaale, Caffo, Mehta, Singer, Taranto, McBride, Montgomery“Long-term risk of death was no higher for live donors than for age- and comorbidity-matched participants for all patients and also stratified by age, sex, and race.” PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant TourismMay 2008 PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Economics of the Baby ShortageJournal of Legal Studies · Pages 323–348 · 1978 · Elisabeth Landes and Richard Posner PDF (opens in a new tab)
- For Those Who Desperately Need Organ DonationsFirst Things · April 2, 2009 · Michael Novak PDF (opens in a new tab)
- The Search for Organs: Halachic Perspectives on Altruistic Giving and Selling of OrgansJournal of Medical Ethics · 2005 · J.D. Kunin PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Dying People Shouldn't Be Beggars: Altruism as a Failing Medical StrategyChicago Tribune · March 14, 2010 · Steve Chapman (opens in a new tab)
- Taking Organs from the Condemned in China – A Call to Cease (Hebrew)Harefuah · October 2006 · Jacob Lavee, MD PDF (opens in a new tab)
- A New Law for Allocation of Donor Organs in IsraelThe Lancet · December 2009 · Jacob Lavee, Tamar Ashkenazi, Gabriel Gurman, David Steinberg PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Repugnance as a Constraint on MarketsJournal of Economic Perspectives · Summer 2007 · Alvin E. Roth PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Kidney Shortage Inspires a Radical Idea: Organ SalesWall Street Journal · November 13, 2007 (opens in a new tab)