The Living Organ Donor as Patient

Moving beyond an understanding of justice as fairness to an in-depth health equity-based critique of existing policies and processes… seems to be an outcome of taking the authors’ framework seriously. * Christy Simpson, Hastings Center Report *

Lainie Friedman Ross, M.D., Ph.D., is the Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Medical Ethics; Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Surgery and the College; Co-Director of the University of Chicago Institute for Translational Medicine, Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and Director of Research Ethics Consultation at the University of Chicago.

J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago in the Transplant Surgery Section of the Department of Surgery, in the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and in the Committee on Immunology.