Annotated Bibliography
Gregory, Anthony. “Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help to Save Lives, End Violence.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 8 Nov. 2011
The Atlantic Magazine wrote this article to help their readers understand why legalizing organ sales is beneficial from saving lives to ending violence.This article explains how only a certain number of kidneys are available every year for the thousands of patients waiting. It goes on to talk about how Levy Izhak Rosenbaum had to plead guilty for the sale of his kidneys even though everything went smooth and both sides are happy and living healthy lives. The article takes into question why the sales of organs are illegal when its okay to be compensated for giving blood, semen, and eggs.
There author of the article is Anthony Gregory, who is a research editor at the Independent Institute. At the Independent Institute, they network with scholars to organize research that goes with today’s environmental health and science and combines it with the economic and legal aspect. The research is spot on. It has statements from professionals like transplant surgeon Nadley Hakim. The intended audience of this source is for people who are not really sure on where they stand. It is pro legalizing and pretty much wants the reader to be to pro legalizing it also.
Picoult, Jodi. My Sister's Keeper: A Novel. New York : Washington Square Press, 2005, c2004. Print.
My Sister’s Keeper, a novel by Jodi Picoult ties back into my theme of how important it is to have to the right to choose what to do with our bodies. This story is about Anna Fitzgerald who’s only reason of being a child to Brian and Sara is to be a donor to her sister Kate, who was diagnosed with Leukemia. Since she was born Anna has always donated to her sister. At 13 years old her parents are asking her to donate her kidney. Anna refuses and files a lawsuit against her parents to regain the parts to her body. Fast forward to the trial and the judge rules in her favor. Anna doesn’t have to donate her kidney. After leaving the courthouse, Anna is an accident. After many attempts to save her, she is declared brain dead. Her kidney is donated to Kate, who makes a full recovery and goes on to live her life.
Jodi Picoult, the author, is the #1 best-selling author of 25 novels including My Sister’s Keeper. Picoult holds many awards. She's earned awards from New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Awards from the YALSA, a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America, and the NH Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit. Jodi herself went through something similar with her son, Jake, who had cholesteatoma. A tumor in his left ear. He underwent 13 surgeries and is still in recovery.
Don Tucker and Adam Avery. The Gift, Funhouse Studios, June 2014
The song, The Gift, is about Don Tucker who received a liver transplant from a dying mother. The song’s lyrics talk about a donor’s troubled soul could finally rest and be at peace. All while giving the recipient a second chance. It continues to go on about the recipient got a second chance to be a better person, and that is only thanks to the donor for giving him “the gift”.
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The writer of this song is Don Tucker himself with a little help from his friend Adam Avery. Don Tucker is a guitarist in Arkansas. He wrote this song after receiving a liver transplant in October of 2013. He was beyond thankful for getting a second chance at life. After finishing the song he sent it to the transplant team at UAMS Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after, he received a message from the Arkansas Donate Life asking to use the song to promote organ donor awareness. He and Adam offered the song, The Gift, to help their cause.
Houser, Kristin. “Black Market Bodies: Legalizing the Sale of Human Organs Could Save Lives.” Futurism, Futurism, 6 Nov. 2017
This article educates us on the lack of donors for all the patients who are in desire need of an organ. According to the World Health Organization, families of patients become desperate and purchase an organ, illegally, through the black market. It goes on to say how legalizing the sale of human organs in 1980 in Iran has worked for them. Now, many decades later, every person who has ever needed a kidney in Iran, has received one. In 2014 alone, around 5,000 people died waiting for a kidney. Desperate times call for desperate measures. According to the WHO, middle to high class people make the illegal purchases of organs because they can afford to do so. The donor is usually a low class individual who’s reason for selling to avoid living in poverty. Because it is illegal, these donors get low level surgeons to perform their surgeries not realizing the risk they are taking. If legalized, donors will treated just as well as the recipient. It has worked in Iran, what is stopping it from working around the world?
The author of the article Kristin Houser is a write for the Futurism Media Company. Futurism is an an independently owned media company based out of New York City. Futurism is known for respecting the view of experts in the scientific fields. The media company is based on scientific sourcing. Within the article, Houser uses many statistics to grab the reader's attention. This article was written only two years ago and is still relevant today. The article is very factual, with no opinion. A very good piece to use in a research project.
Horra, Luis Pablo de la. “Why We Need a Market for Human Organs.” CapX, CapX, 2 Aug. 2018,
The article starts off with telling us to open our eyes and see how not having an open market for human organs is killing people all over the world. The article stresses greatly that we are the owners of our bodies and we should do with them as we please. Legalizing the sale of human organs would improve and save thousands of lives. Thousands die every year because they simply don’t have 365 days to give. A legalized market would also decrease the dangers of the black market.
Luis Pablo de la Horra is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Valladolid (Spain). He has been published by several media outlets, including The American Conservative, E!Sharp and the Intellectual Takeout, and a few others. CapX, the media company this article was published on, is a right wing politic. It is a British company and that just goes to show that this problem is going on all around the world. This article was published only a year ago, and still stresses its relevance today. Also, it is mostly based on opinion with very few facts.
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