This terrific and thoughtful blog post is WAAAAY over my non-math-oriented head, but I enjoyed reading it … so I’m sure any of you who are more mathematically inclined will enjoy it even more.
The blogger writes about a married couple — mathemetician Sommer Gentry and Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon Dorry Segey — who were principal researchers [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Transplant ethics’
A mathematical approach to kidney donor chains
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplants, tagged Altruistic donation, Kidney donor chains, Kidney transplants, Non-directed donation, Organ transplant ethics, Paired donation, Paired exchanges, Transplant ethics, Transplantation ethics on April 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
More for the organ donation ethics junkies
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplants, tagged Should living donors be compensated?, Transplant ethics on February 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If you care to follow the debate on whether living organ donors should be compensated as a part of the solution to the organ shortage, you are bound to find a steady supply of fodder. It is everywhere lately, it seems —in ill-researched blog posts, in contentious radio shows hosted by blow-hards, in newspaper op-ed columns and [...]
The curious case of the conditional kidney
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Donors in the news, Transplant ethics on January 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sigh. There is so much hurt in the world — people suffering on organ waiting lists, people suffering from anger and resentment, people who are not at peace with themselves, their world, their gifts. Dr. Richard Batista, irritated by four years of divorce proceedings following his wife’s extramarital affair, is telling her now that he [...]
