Market Design

I post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See my Stanford profile. I have a forthcoming book : Moral Economics The subtitle is "From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work."

Showing posts with label brain. Show all posts

Showing posts with label brain. Show all posts

Friday, March 8, 2024

Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantation

The father of brain death has died. Here's the NYT obit. Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89 . His willi...

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Brain death for organ donation, and its relation to controversy about abortion

Here's a summary of the current discussion of brain death (and its possible connection to the debate on whether a fetus is a living per...

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Peter Singer on brain death

Here's Peter Singer's op-ed in the Washington Post on the debate over brain death, presently used to decide when deceased donor or...

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Brain Death

Before there was the possibility of organ transplantation, determining that someone was dead could be a relatively leisurely affair. But t...

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Dead pigs and live brain cells--with implications still to be understood

Dramatic scientific announcements get press coverage before they are well (or at all) understood, but that can still be exciting. Here...

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