Informationen zum Autor T. Randolph "Randy" Beard is Professor of Economics at Auburn University.Rigmar Osterkamp is Fellow at the School for Political Studies at University of Munich.The late David L. Kaserman was Torchmark Professor of Economics at Auburn University. Klappentext T. Randolph "Randy" Beard is Professor of Economics at Auburn University.Rigmar Osterkamp is Fellow at the School for Political Studies at University of Munich.The late David L. Kaserman was Torchmark Professor of Economics at Auburn University. Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized because of failures in the organ acquisition process. In the United States, for instance, more than 10,000 people die every year either awaiting transplantation, or as a result of deteriorating health exacerbated by the shortage of organs. Issues pertaining to organ donation and transplantation represent, perhaps, the most complex and morally controversial medical dilemmas aside from abortion and euthanasia. However, these quandaries are not unsolvable. This book proposes compensating organ donors within a publicly controlled monopsony. This proposal is quite similar to current practice in Spain, where compensation for cadaveric donation now occurs "in secret," as this text reveals. To build their recommendations, the authors provide a medical history of transplantation, a history of the development of national laws and waiting lists, a careful examination of the social costs and benefits of transplantation, a discussion of the causes of organ shortages, an evaluation of "partial" reforms tried or proposed, an extensive ethical evaluation of the current system and its competitors.

"In most countries, the channels for organ procurement impose intolerable burdens on ill patients. This book examines the organ shortage from many different angles in search of resolution. Big problems generally require market-based solutions, and the authors show that this issue is no exception to that rule. Their proposal for a compensated system of organ procurement deserves to be widely read and debated."

Autorentext

T. Randolph "Randy" Beard is Professor of Economics at Auburn University.

Rigmar Osterkamp is Fellow at the School for Political Studies at University of Munich.

The late David L. Kaserman was Torchmark Professor of Economics at Auburn University.

Zusammenfassung
This is the first book to provide a global examination of the shortage of organs for transplantation from an economic perspective. It provides a detailed proposal for reform based on the availability of compensation for donations within a publicly controlled monopsony.