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Organ Donation

Health

I Donated My Kidney to Help a Stranger. But What About the Person I Couldn't Help?

On generosity, selfishness, and organ donation.

Wency Leung Globe and Mail Jun 2020 20min Permalink

Sports Health

Their Son's Heart Saved His Life. So He Rode 1,426 Miles to Meet Them.

An organ transplant recipient cycles across the country to meet the people who gave him his heart.

A.C. Shilton Bicycling Jan 2020 Permalink

Health

The Body Snatchers

The murky ethics of crowdsourcing an organ donation.

Nicholas Hune-Brown Toronto Life Dec 2015 20min Permalink

Science World

The Organ Detective

A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.

Ethan Watters Pacific Standard Jul 2014 30min Permalink

Crime Science

The Tainted Kidney

A serial killer attempts to donate an organ.

Charles Graeber New York Oct 2007 25min Permalink

Best Article Science

As Good as Dead

Is there really such a thing as brain death?

Gary Greenberg New Yorker Aug 2001 20min Permalink