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Book Review
Nature Medicine 13, 401 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm0407-401
On race and organ markets
Summer Johnson1, Kelly Hills1,2 & Glenn McGee1,2
- Summer Johnson, Kelly Hills and Glenn McGee are at the Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College of Union University, Albany, New York 12203, USA. e-mail: summer.johnson@bioethics.net
- Kelly Hills and Glenn McGee are also in the Department of Philosophy, University at Albany, Albany, New York 12203, USA.
If you want to attract attention to the problems of health disparities along racial and ethnic lines, take a page from Michelle Goodwin. In fact take her title page: Goodwin's provocatively labeled Black Markets makes good on the implicit promise of any book bearing such a label: it shocks the reader with well-researched accounts of the abuse of black patients who are candidates for organ transplantation, then argues that the systematic inequality in organ transplantation is the result of racism inherent to the transplantation system.
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