Category: Organ donation
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Taboo Trades Podcast: Kidneys, Stakes, and Plasma with James Stacey Taylor
On today’s episode, the amazing James Stacey Taylor, a Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey, joins me and UVA Law 3L Liam Bourque. Taylor has written over 100 academic articles and five books. He’s with us today to discuss excerpts from two of those books: Bloody Bioethics: Why Prohibiting Donor Compensation Harms…
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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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Taboo Trades Podcast: The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation with Hagai Boas
Today’s guest is the Israeli sociologist, Hagai Boas, a four-time organ transplant recipient and the author of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation. Hagai is the second transplant recipient on the podcast (Sally Satel has received two kidney transplants), but I’ve never met anyone before who has been transplanted *four* times, or who has purchased an…
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Book recommendation: The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation by Hagai Boas
I recently finished The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation, written by the Israeli sociologist Hagai Boas and published by Routledge, and highly recommend it. Hagai is a four-time organ transplant recipient (technically, five, I suppose, since his most recent transplant, in 2020, was of both a kidney and a liver). He is the director of…
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Taboo Trades Podcast Bonus Episode: Ending The Kidney Shortage with Frank McCormick
Frank McCormick is an economist and the author of numerous articles focused on the shortage of kidneys for transplantation. He is retired from the Bank of America where he was Vice-president and Director of U.S. Economic and Financial Research. Today, we’re discussing his recent article, Projecting the Economic Impact of Compensating Living Kidney Donors in…
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Kidneys For Sale in Iran: Market Design Blog
Via Al Roth’s Market Design Blog: Just published in Transplant International (which is the journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation), is a paper describing the Iranian market for kidneys in the city of Mashad, and three commentaries on it. Here’s the original paper: Kidneys for Sale: Empirical Evidence From Iran by Tannaz Moeindarbari and Mehdi…
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Kidneys with Sally Satel
I discuss what it’s like to need (and receive) a life-saving kidney transplant with AEI’s Sally Satel (a two-time kidney transplant patient) and UVA 3L, Caitlyn Stollings, who co-hosts this episode. Dr. Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the staff psychiatrist at a local methadone clinic in Washington D.C. She…
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Book Recommendation: Kidney To Share by Martha Gershun And John D. Lantos
Over the holidays, I finished Kidney To Share, a new book by Martha Gershun And John D. Lantos published by Cornell University Press and highly recommend it! It’s extremely well-done—informative, funny, thought-provoking. The book alternates between chapters from Martha and John, with Martha taking readers through a personal account of her non-directed kidney donation to…
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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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Me with Brian Frye on Ipse Dixit
I just did a short and fun podcast with Brian Frye (University of Kentucky College of Law) about repugnant markets ranging from kidneys to football, boxing, sex, and blood. You can listen below. Brian was a wonderful and generous host, and I’m so grateful for the opportunity to discuss my work with him (and with you!) Links…