Sally Satel – The Ethics of Selling a Kidney (Bonus Episode)

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?”

matchingdonors.com

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”

Sally’s website

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