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1 When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors (Sally L. Satel, ed.) ii (2009)

handle is hein.amenin/aeiabgb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Arterica faces a desperate organ shortage. Todar more than 78,000 people are wait- ing for a kidney transplant- only one in four will receive one this year, while twelve die each day waiting for help. Not surprisingly mav patens aie dive to desperae measures to circumvent the eight-year waiting list-renting billboards, advertising in newsletters, or even purchasing an organ on the global black market. Altruism is an admirable but clearly insufticient motivation for would-be donors. What can be done to solve the kidney crisis? Compensate organ donors for their remarkable gifts. Rewarding people who donate to a desperate stranger will motivate others to do the same, increase the national supply of kidneys, and reduce needless death and suffering. VVien Altmisrn Isn't Fnough: The Case for Compensating Kidnq Donors explores the key ethical, theoretical, and practical concerns of a government- regulated donor compensation program. It is the first book to describe how such a system could be designed to be ethically permissible, econonically justifiable, and pragmatically achievable. Atruism is a beautiful virtue, but relying on it as the sole impetus for organ donation ensures that thousands of people will continue to die each year while waiting for kidney transplants. Sally Satel, MD, isa resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and coauthor of The IIealth Disparitis ktth (AEI Press, 2006), Oe N ation dcr Thcrap, (St. Marting Press, 2005), and Health atd the hicot Incqualit IPypothcsis (AEt Press, 2004). Contributors: David C. Cronin I, MD , Julio J. Elias, Richard A. Epstein, Michele Goodwin, Benjamin E. Hippen, MD, Elbert S. Huang, MD, Arthurj. Matas, MD, David 0. Meltzer, MD, Sally Satel, MD, Mary C. Simmerling, James Stacey Taylor, Nidhi Thakur, Chad A. Thompson. PUBLIC HEALTH $25.00 ISBN 13 (7 0 17 4266 N 10 0 8447 42W6 X W s2 500 Coverr mage: Alberto RiggieriGetty i mages 97084421

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