Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market

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Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market by Mark J. Cherry Georgetown University Press * 2005 * 258 pages * $26.95

Reviewed by William L. Anderson

When I was a graduate student I had a professor who had been through a kidney transplant. Being both an economist and someone badly in need of a new kidney had led him to examine the dynamics of organ transplantation and, more specifically, why it was that people often had to wait years before a human organ was available. He came to the conclusion that the current government-run system leads to needless deaths and that a market system in organs would be economically and morally …