The Global Organ Shortage
Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses
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- English
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The Global Organ Shortage
Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses
About this book
Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized because of failures in the organ acquisition process. In the United States, for instance, more than 10,000 people die every year either awaiting transplantation, or as a result of deteriorating health exacerbated by the shortage of organs.
Issues pertaining to organ donation and transplantation represent, perhaps, the most complex and morally controversial medical dilemmas aside from abortion and euthanasia. However, these quandaries are not unsolvable. This book proposes compensating organ donors within a publicly controlled monopsony. This proposal is quite similar to current practice in Spain, where compensation for cadaveric donation now occurs "in secret," as this text reveals.
To build their recommendations, the authors provide a medical history of transplantation, a history of the development of national laws and waiting lists, a careful examination of the social costs and benefits of transplantation, a discussion of the causes of organ shortages, an evaluation of "partial" reforms tried or proposed, an extensive ethical evaluation of the current system and its competitors.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Evolution of Organ Transplantation and Procurement Policy
- 3. Consequences of the Current Policy
- 4. Social Costs and Benefits of Transplants
- 5. Economic and Political Causes of the Shortage of Organs
- 6. Reforms Short of Open Donor Compensation
- 7. An Assessment of the Moral Basis of Alternative Organ Donation Rules
- 8. Compensation for Organ Donation and a Proposal for a Public Monopsony for Organ Acquisition
- 9. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index