Pros
This type of kidney donation results in higher quality organs and more successful transplants.
What is living donation?
About this many people die each year waiting for a transplant.
What is 8,000?
The price of kidneys in a donation-only system is set at this value.
What is $0?
This framework focuses on rules and obligations.
What is duty-based ethics?
This country prohibits the sale of organs.
What is Canada?
This system promotes fairness by allocating organs based on medical need, not wealth.
What is donation-only system?
This system creates a shortage because price is fixed at $0.
What is donation-only system?
This economic concept explains why shortages occur when price is below equilibrium.
What is a price ceiling?
This framework focuses on character and moral virtues.
What is virtue-based ethics?
Approximately this many people are on the transplant waiting list.
What is 103,000?
This ethical framework supports saving the most lives possible.
What is outcome-based ethics?
This ethical issue arises when poor individuals feel pressured to sell organs.
What is exploitation?
This is the approximate equilibrium price shown on the graph for kidneys.
What is $30,000?
This phrase is central to allocation decisions: “equity, utility, and ____.”
What is respect for persons?
This organ has the highest demand on the waiting list.
What is kidney?
This policy increases supply by allowing price to rise toward equilibrium.
What is an open market system?
This system risks prioritizing wealthy patients over others.
What is open market system?
This group includes doctors, hospitals, and transplant organizations making allocation decisions.
Who are economic agents?
This requirement ensures donors are not pressured or manipulated.
What is free and informed consent?
This candidate was chosen for having three kids and being a nurse.
Who is Edwina?
This allocation factor prioritizes patients who are most likely to have a successful long-term transplant outcome.
What is likelihood of transplant success?
This moral concern involves treating organs as products instead of human body parts.
What is commodification?
This happens when demand exceeds supply in organ markets.
What is shortage?
This framework supports actions that produce “the greatest good for the greatest number.”
What is outcome-based ethics?
This ethical goal balances fairness and maximizing lives saved.
What is equity and utility?