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You Get What You Pay For?: Rethinking U.S. Organ Procurement Policy In Light Of Foreign Models, J. Andrew Hughes
You Get What You Pay For?: Rethinking U.S. Organ Procurement Policy In Light Of Foreign Models, J. Andrew Hughes
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The U.S. organ transplant system is in crisis due to the paucity of transplantable organs. Such a shortage exists because otherwise viable organs are too often buried along with the bodies in which they reside. Organs are wasted because the existing U.S. organ transplant system sets up barriers to organ donation--chiefly the legal presumption of unwillingness to donate ("voluntary donation') and the National Organ Transplant Act's ban on the transfer of organs for valuable consideration. This Note surveys the qualified successes of Austria, Belgium, Brazil, and France with their various "presumed consent" models of organ procurement. It also considers other …
Ten Fingers, Ten Toes: Newborn Screening For Untreatable Disorders, Ellen Wright Clayton
Ten Fingers, Ten Toes: Newborn Screening For Untreatable Disorders, Ellen Wright Clayton
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This movie makes two important points despite its admitted unreality. The first, which the screen writer probably did not fully appreciate at the time, is that genetic testing cannot now and probably will never be able to predict with complete certainty the occurrence and course of complex diseases. It is not true that "Genes-R-Us." Rather, we are the products of complex interactions of our genes, the genomes of other organisms (many of which we live in relation with), and the environment, broadly understood to include the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the drugs we …