...Lara Rosen; Aidan R. Vining; David L. Weimer Transplantation is generally the treatment of choice for those suffering from kidney failure. Not only does transplantation offer improved quality of life and increased longevity relative to dialysis, it also reduces end-stage renal disease program...

... is not a genuine instance of a ‘mini’ national health insurance program, there are important moral, social, and policy lessons to be learned from this unique effort to provide renal therapies to those Americans in need. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Kidneys...

...Robert L. Steinbrook A profound kidney shortage compromises the effective care of renal failure patients in the United States and other nations. This article discusses the need for kidneys, the procurement of live donor and cadaver organs, and strategies to increase organ donation. It suggests...

... empirical analysis of data on kidney transplants that were secured from the Health Care Financing Administration is then presented. The study of the effects of hospital and surgeon volumes on graft and patient survival and of the effect of volume on charges found no systematic influence of hospital...

...Jeffrey M. Prottas In the last ten years there has grown up, in the United States, the most extensive organ procurement system in the world. This system, consisting of approximately 120 organ procurement agencies, retrieved 4435 cadaveric kidneys for transplant purposes in 1981. The nation's organ...

...Richard A. Rettig This paper reviews the historical development of federal government policy for kidney, heart, and liver transplantation. It examines several political dimensions of whole organ transplantation: the role of the print and broadcast media; the management of organ procurement...

... for Organ Sharing, the author examines the point system for cadaveric kidneys, the access of foreign nationals to organs donated in the U.S., and the multiple listings of patients seeking transplants. He concludes by identifying two major problems of equitable access to donated organs that will have...

...Stephen J. Spurr During the last decade there have been enormous advances in the transplantation of vital human organs-in particular, the kidney, lung, heart, liver, pancreas, and small intestine. Unfortunately, efforts to provide the benefits of these operations to patients have been severely...

.... In their context of proposing mechanisms to alleviate the organ shortage by pay- ing living kidney donors, they note that even observers willing to consider the use of market mechanisms claim the existence of a “global consensus” against the sale of organs (Cherry 2005). Likewise, they note that much...

... of change. First, there have been changes in scale; as little as five years ago, the industry was less than half its present size. Second, the number of transplantation “product lines” has increased. Five years ago, only kidneys were transplanted; now, transplants of hearts and livers are virtually...

... of intelligent human beings” (Stason 1968: 928). 1. In 1985, the Medicare program paid $285 million for kidney transplants alone (Schuck 1989). 2. See Landes and Posner (1978), Prichard (1984), and Boston University Law Review (1987). 3. This does not mean that sales or gifts were illegal...

...David M. Frankford © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References Cherry M. J. 2005 . Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market . Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press . Cohen L. 2002 . The Other Kidney: Biopolitics Beyond...

... Administration (VA), and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS).3 Medicare pays for kidney and heart4 trans- plants; with one insignificant e~ception,~it does not cover liver transplants, which it still considers experimental.6 The VA and CHAMPUS have greater leeway...

... or cadaver donor, or simply allowed to die Kennedy ?? Review Essay ?? End Stage Renal Disease 369 of kidney failure. Now a growing literature is beginning to address the ethical dilemmas that have been previously cloaked as technical matters. Recent monographs on renal dialysis...

... a policy of routine removal subject to the right of informed refusal, and defend this policy against several possible objections. Tremendous progress has been made in the area of organ transplantation in the last twenty years. Transplantation of the kidney, first performed in 1951 and con...

..., and contractual issues, particularly the role 9f minors in such a system. Finally, it is argued that such a market is superior to the much-discussed compulsory expropriation alternative. The feasibility of organ transplantation has advanced rapidly over the past dec- ade. Kidney, cornea, pituitary...

...: NCCUSL. New York Times. 1988 . Test Device Raises Hope of Keeping Organs Alive Longer for Transplant. 16 June, p. BIO. Opelz , J. 1988 . The Benefit of Exchanging Donor Kidneys Among Transplant Centers. New England Journal of Medicine 318 : 1289 -92. Pierce , G. A. 1988 . DHHS...

... Study. Seattle, WA: Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers. Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers. 1986 . National Kidney Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Study. Seattle, WA: Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers. Battin , Margaret P. 1987 . Age Rationing and the Just Distribution...

.... Cheit, R. E. 1990 . Setting Safety Standards: Regulation in the Public and Private Sectors . Berkeley: University of California Press. Cherry, M. J. 2005 . Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market . Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Daubert, G. L...

... of Water Helps Cavities . 29 November. ———. 1951b . Three Minors Recount Narcotic Scourge . 27 June. ———. 1963 . Artificial Kidney Held Too Costly; Joint Group Would Expand Use of Life-Saving Device . 23 June, 39 . Pauly, Phillip. 1987 . Controlling Life:Jacques Loeb and the Engineering...