Sally Satel – The Ethics of Selling a Kidney (Bonus Episode)
Episode description
The following bonus episode was previously available only to paying Substack subscribers. We’re now releasing it to the public.
0:00 Identitarianism in the medical profession
5:13 The (exaggerated) psychiatric toll of Covid
7:31 Why were psychiatrists publicly diagnosing Trump?
12:29 Sally’s quest for a kidney donor
23:30 How the kidney donation system works and why it doesn’t
29:30 The ethics of selling a kidney
34:42 Can we put a price on the human body?
43:44 Would paying donors exploit the poor?
48:17 Is paid kidney donation a political possibility?
53:12 The roadblocks facing paid kidney donation
Links and Readings
Sally’s book, P.C., M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine
Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally’s book, One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance
Peter Kramer and Sally’s 2017 NYT op-ed, “Who Decides Whether Trump Is Unfit to Govern?”
Leon Kass’s book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
Glenn’s conversation with Michael Sandel
Michael Novak’s defense of paid kidney donation in First Things
Sally’s book, When Altruism Isn’t Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors
Sally’s New York Times Magazine piece, “Desperately Seeking a Kidney”
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