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Directed Donation
Author(s) -
Arnason Wayne B.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3562358
Subject(s) - donation , economic shortage , race (biology) , relevance (law) , medicine , transplantation , organ donation , family medicine , psychology , surgery , sociology , political science , law , gender studies , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
The difficulty in finding well‐matched kidneys for transplantation into black Americans is compounded by the disproportionately low rate of black donation. A program of directed donation that privileged black‐to‐black transplant could ease the chronic shortage of organs.