Podcast: Letting people sell their kidneys solved Iran’s organ shortage. Should the US do the same?

Taking the sting out of organ donation.
Taking the sting out of organ donation.
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Update, 6.12.15: The podcast has now launched, and you can listen or subscribe to Actuality in iTunes.

Quartz and Marketplace are collaborating on a new podcast. It’s still in preview mode, but we’re releasing the latest episode for your enjoyment and feedback.

This week, we look at a thorny public health problem: facing a shortage of living organ donors, should we let people sell their organs?

Hosts Tim Fernholz and Sabri Ben-Achour are joined by bioethicist Sigrid Fry-Revere, an advocate for living donors, and Dr. David Axelrod, the chief of transplant surgery at Dartmouth Hitchock medical center.

Please send us your thoughts on the episode and suggestions for what we should discuss in the future. You also can listen to preview episodes on digital piracysuper batteries and ocean extinction, and, soon, so very soon, subscribe to future episodes wherever fine podcasts are distributed.