English ORGAN SALES DEFINITIONAL ASSIGNMENT

Topic: Human Organ Donation and Sales

Resource List

Below is a list of relevant websites that will help with your research. You are encouraged to find additional sources on your own.

· United States Department of Health and Human Services. (2022). Data. https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/data/

· Kidney Shortage Inspires A Radical Idea: Organ Sales

https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/medical-marketplace-kidney-shortage-inspires/docview/399092881/se-2?accountid=7374

· Health Resources & Services Administration. (2020). Organ donation and transplantation.

https://data.hrsa.gov/topics/health-systems/organ-donation

· Health Resources & Services Administration (n.d.). Religion and organ donation.

https://www.organdonor.gov/learn/who-can-donate/religion

· Alhawari, Y., Verhoff, M. A., Ackermann, H., & Parzeller, M. (2020). Religious denomination influencing attitudes towards brain death, organ transplantation and autopsy--a survey among people of different religions. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 134(3), 1203 https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/religious-denomination-influencing-attitudes/docview/2273606948/se-2?accountid=7374

· Carmack, H. J., & DeGroot, J. M. (2020). Communication apprehension about death, religious group affiliation, and religiosity: Predictors of organ and body donation decisions. Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 81(4), 627–647. https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=144621545&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s8333196&groupid=main&profile=eds1

· Donate Life: "Organ Donation Statistics"

https://www.donatelife.net/statistics/

· "Howstuffworks: How Organ Donations Works" http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/organ-donation3.htm

· "Statistic Brain: Organ Donor Statistics"

https://www.organdonor.gov/statistics-stories/statistics.html

· Organdonor.gov

http://www.organdonor.gov/index.html

· "The Sale of Human Organs"

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/organs-sale/

The following is a list of readings that will assist you in gathering information for your essays.

Read "Black Market for Body Parts Spreads Among the Poor in Europe," by Bilefsky, from The New York Times,(2012). http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/world/europe/black-market-for-body-parts-spreads-in-europe.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Read "Kidney Shortage Inspires A Radical Idea: Organ Sales," by Meckler, from The Wall Street Journal (2007).

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119490273908090431.html

Read "Legalizing the Organ Trade?" by Ritter, from Time (2008).

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1833858,00.html

Read "The 'Spare Parts Person'? Conceptions of the Human Body and Their Implications for Public Attitudes Towards Organ Donation and Organ Sale," by Schweda & Schicktanz. Philosophy, Ethics, And Humanities In Medicine (2009). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=42095008&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "Why Should They Die?," by Forbes, from Forbes (2009). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=43765514&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "Organs for Sale," by Satel, from American (2006). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&AN=24855477&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "Unnecessary Deaths," by Forbes, from Forbes (2007). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=25946021&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "Organs Without Borders," by Scheper-Hughes, from Foreign Policy (2005). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=15424794&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts," by Bard, from Journal Of Health Politics, Policy & Law (2008). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=29419413&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "Gifts of the Heart…and Other Tissues: Legalizing the Sale of Human Organs and Tissues," by Boyer, from Brigham Young University Law Review (2012). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=74260231&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "An Evaluation of Financial Incentive Policies for Organ Donations in the United States," by Wellington & Sayre, from Contemporary Economic Policy (2011). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=57220004&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations," by Becker & Elías, from Journal Of Economic Perspectives (2007). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=29325207&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "Organ Donation: A Significant Marketing Challenge," by Clarke, from Health Marketing Quarterly (2007). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=36303212&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "Dollars for Donors," by Montgomery, from Indiana Lawyer (2012). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=71852058&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read "Organ Transplantation: Is the Best Approach a Legalized Market or Altruism?" by Clemmons, from Journal Of Healthcare Management (2009). https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=43458915&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Additional References:

Included below is a list of additional articles that can be found in the GCU library.

· Bakdash, T. & Scheper-Hughes, N. (2006). Is it ethical for patients with renal disease to purchase kidneys from the world's poor? PLoS Medicine, 3(10), 1699-1702.

· Barsoum, R. (2008). Trends in unrelated-donor kidney transplantation in the developing world. Pediatric Nephrology, 23, 1925-1929.

· Campion-Vincent, V. (2002). Organ theft narratives as medical and social critique. Journal of Folklore Research, 39(1), 33-50.

· Capaldi, N. (2000). A Catholic perspective on organ sales. Christian Bioethics: Non-ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, 6(2), 139-151.

· Cohen, I. G. (2012). Can the government ban organ sale? Recent court challenges adn the future of U. S. law on selling human organs and other tissue. American Journal of Transplantation, 12, 1983-1987.

· Interlandi, J. (2009). Not just urban legend. Newsweek, 153(3), 41-45.

· Kelly, E. (2013). International organ trafficking crisis: solutions addressing the heart of the matter. Boston College Law Review, 54, 1317-1349.

· Matas, A. (2004). The case for living kidney sales: rationale, objections, and concerns. American Journal of Transplantation, 4, 2007-2017.

· Park, A. & Dockterman, E. (2012). Cells for sale. Time, 180(3), 22.

· Pessemier, E. A., Bemmaor, A. C. & Hanssens, D. M. (1977). Willingness to supply human body parts: some empirical results. Journal of Consumer Research, 4(3), 131-140.

· Rivera-Lopez, E. (2006). Organ sales and moral distress. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 23(1), 41-52.

· Wong, M. (2007). Kidneys online. People, 67(12), 127-128.

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