Thursday, August 20, 2026

How heart transplants gave birth to brain death (new book by Basil Baccouche)

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  Basil Baccouche has a forthcoming book, which I found pretty thrilling: The End of Death: A Surgeon, a Heart Transplant, and the Fight to...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Deceased-donor initiated kidney exchange chaiins in Italy, after six years

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  Kidney exchange in Italy is now making good use of deceased-donor initiated chains.   American Journal of Transplantation Available online...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Public attitudes towards deceased organ donation and allocation in china

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 Deceased  organ donation in China does not  yet have overwhelming public support although receiving a deceased donor organ transplant does:...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Bra doping at the women’s Tour de France

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 I follow the Tour de France, partly out of an interest in performance enhancing drugs.  But from time to time other strategic kinds of dopi...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Moral Economics: read the first 30 pages, open access on Google books

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 I know you have been just about to buy my book Moral Economics, ever since it came out in May.  But you don't need to charge blindly a...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Controversial markets in Canada

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  I talk with Gemma Boothroyd, about Moral Economics and controversial markets in Canada, including medical aid in dying, about which she h...
Friday, August 14, 2026

True Crime: Illegal markets have great variety (PNAS)

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  The forthcoming issue of PNAS (August 18, 2026 | vol. 123 | no. 33 ) has a big set of papers on illegal markets, with the goal of searchin...