| When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors Contributor(s): Satel, Sally (Editor) |
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ISBN: 084474266X ISBN-13: 9780844742663 Publisher: AEI Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2009 Annotation: Today, more than 78,000 people are waiting for a kidney transplant. What can be done to solve the kidney crisis? Compensate organ donors for their remarkable gifts. This book explores the key ethical, theoretical, and practical concerns of a government-regulated donor compensation system. It is the first to describe how such a system could be designed to be ethically permissible, economically justifiable, and pragmatically achievable. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Surgery - General - Health & Fitness - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 617.461 |
| LCCN: 2008045715 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.85 lbs) 250 pages |
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| Publisher Description: America faces a desperate organ shortage. Today, more than 78,000 people are waiting for a kidney transplant; only one in four will receive one this year, while twelve die each day waiting for help. Not surprisingly, many patients are driven to desperate 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 insufficient motivation for would-be donors. What can be done to solve the kidney crisis? Reward organ donors for their remarkable gifts. Noncash benefits to 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. When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney 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, economically justifiable, and pragmatically achievable. Altruism 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 |