The concluding chapter of Dr. Sigrid Fry-Revere's recently published book The Kidney Sellers is entitled "Conclusion: Can the U.S. Organ Shortage Be Solved?". In this portion of the work the author provides recommendations to solve the U.S. kidney shortage, based on her experience investigating the Iranian compensated living kidney donor system. Finally the hungry LIBERTARIAN BIOETHICS BLOGger got to eat the meat of the matter.
The highlights of the conclusion include the following: the recognition that it is impossible to solve the U.S. kidney shortage via increased cadaver organs or tweaks of the current system, analysis revealing that the current U.S. system disadvantages vulnerable populations (poor, minorities, disabled), ideas to reform the Iranian compensated living kidney donor system, and a utilitarian argument for U.S. legislation allowing experimentation with a limited compensated living kidney donor system. The lowlight of the conclusion (and the rest of the book frankly) is the statist orientation of the author's recommendations with no consideration at all (and even implicit criticism of) the concept of a genuine free market in organs.
Acknowledgment and Notes sections follow the concluding chapter.
The highlights of the conclusion include the following: the recognition that it is impossible to solve the U.S. kidney shortage via increased cadaver organs or tweaks of the current system, analysis revealing that the current U.S. system disadvantages vulnerable populations (poor, minorities, disabled), ideas to reform the Iranian compensated living kidney donor system, and a utilitarian argument for U.S. legislation allowing experimentation with a limited compensated living kidney donor system. The lowlight of the conclusion (and the rest of the book frankly) is the statist orientation of the author's recommendations with no consideration at all (and even implicit criticism of) the concept of a genuine free market in organs.
Acknowledgment and Notes sections follow the concluding chapter.
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