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Swaps and Chains and Vouchers, Oh My!: Evaluating How Saving More Lives Impacts the Equitable Allocation of Live Donor Kidneys.
Am J Law Med
March 2018
Professor of Law, Albany Law School and Professor of Bioethics, Albany Medical College. Special thanks to Darren O'Connor, David Conti, Timothy Lytton, Nadia Sawicki, Jed Adam Gross, and Bridget Cuccia for their editing suggestions and invaluable comments. I owe everlasting gratitude to my fantastic research assistants Erin Kilmer, Emily Phillips, and Alexandra Newcomb for their tireless research assistance and enormous help in getting this article out the door. This article is dedicated to my sister Judy Tenenbaum, the strongest person I know, to thank her for her consistent support, wonderful sense of humor, and unique ability to give me perspective.
Live kidney donation involves a delicate balance between saving the most lives possible and maintaining a transplant system that is fair to the many thousands of patients on the transplant waiting list. Federal law and regulations require that kidney allocation be equitable, but the pressure to save patients subject to ever-lengthening waiting times for a transplant has been swinging the balance toward optimizing utility at the expense of justice. This article traces the progression of innovations created to make optimum use of a patient's own live donors.
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