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Article: The U.S. Organ Procurement System: A Prescription for Reform.
- Article from:
- Nephrology Nursing Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
- Author:
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David L. Kaserman and A.H. Barnett First Edition, 2002 American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth St. N.W. Washington DC 20036 192 pages, hardcover $40.00, softcover $20.00 Hardcover-ISBN 0844741701; softcover084474171x can be downloaded from AEI Web site at: www.aei.org/shop1/shops/1/4171-x.pdf
This monograph, written by two professors of economics, proposes a market system of organ procurement to their intended audience--members of the medical community. The purpose of this policy change is to improve patient welfare. Since the organ shortage has grown progressively worse and an increasing number of patients die while ...