Kim Krawiec

Reverse Transplant Tourism

CO-AUTHORS Michael A. Rees
PUBLISHER
Law and Contemporary Problems
DATE
2014
 

Abstract

In this article, we propose a novel form of kidney swap, which we label “Reverse Transplant Tourism.” This proposal has the potential to increase the number of successful transplants in the US at a time of great need, while reducing costs. It also will provide benefits to impoverished international patients with willing, compatible donors who otherwise would have no access to transplantation. Instead of non-US kidney donors being offered money through a black market middleman in exchange for one of their kidneys, Reverse Transplant Tourism would provide a legal and ethical exchange of living donor kidneys through kidney-paired donation. In this way, the donors will not receive money for their kidneys, but rather will receive a transplant for someone they love, while also helping a US pair who would otherwise be unable to transplant due to biological incompatibility. 

 

 

 

Citation

Kimberly D. Krawiec & Michael A. Rees, Reverse Transplant Tourism, 77 Law and Contemporary Problems, 145–174 (2014).
 

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