Please note: This event has been canceled. At this event, Sally Satel, M.D., will discuss her new book, When Altruism Isn’t Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors and the national organ shortage.

Rewarding organ donors for their remarkable gifts can be ethically permissible, economically justifiable, and pragmatically achievable.

When Altruism Isn't Enough explores the key ethical, theoretical, and practical concerns of a government-regulated donor compensation program.

Sally Satel M.D., author of When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors, will be available for comment.

Roughly 10% of all organ transplants in the world are obtained on the black market. A new investigation by puts a brutal face on that underground world.

Sally Satel assembles medical practitioners, legal scholars, economists, and ethicists to evaluate the merits of and need for an incentive-based system for increasing the supply of kidneys.

Meaningful rewards for living donations could provide the answer to the kidney shortage.

This event will discuss organ donation.