Global Kidney Exchange

Underground And Taboo: With Good Reason

I was recently a guest on the public radio program With Good Reason. From the show’s website: With Good Reason brings together higher education institutions and Virginia Humanities to make scholarly research accessible to all. Each week, we share exciting discoveries, rigorous debates, and new knowledge, with ever-curious host Sarah McConnell guiding the conversation. Our […]

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Repugnance, Global Kidney Exchange, and Drinking Our Own Spit: An Oral Argument Reunion

Last week I had a great “reunion” with Joe Miller and Christian Turner taping the latest episode of their Oral Argument podcast. I first appeared on Oral Argument (which was also my first podcast ever) back in episode 17 (“Fleshlist”), which Christian and Joe reminded me was WAAAYY back in 2014. Wow, that seems like last year,

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Repugnance Readings For The New Year

Happy 2019! Why not start out the new year with a set of readings on repugnance . . . you know you want to.  (They’re readings on repugnance, not repugnant readings!) There is a piece from me, accompanied by excellent commentaries by Harvard law’s Glenn Cohen and the German philosopher, Weyma Lübbe (University of Regensburg). Sadly, all three pieces are behind a paywall.

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Details of the first Global Kidney Exchange Live and (temporarily) ungated

The final version of the paper that I blogged about last week, Complete Chain of the First Global Kidney Exchange Transplant and 3-yr Follow-up, is now available online.   The publisher has created a Share Link providing 50 days’ free access to the article. Anyone clicking on this link before October 27, 2018 will be taken directly to the final version

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Details of the First GKE (Global Kidney Exchange) Chain

My co-authors and I recently published a paper that provides more detail on the first Global Kidney Exchange (GKE), including a 3-year follow-up report on the Filipino pair that participated. We wrote this, in part, to respond to GKE critics who argued that the Filipino pair had been exploited or coerced into participating, or who argued that

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