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  1. Examining the potential exploitation of UNOS policies.Sheldon Zink, Stacey Wertlieb, John Catalano & Victor Marwin - 2005 - American Journal of Bioethics 5 (4):6 – 10.
    The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) waiting list was designed as a just and equitable system through which the limited number of organs is allocated to the millions of Americans in need of a transplant. People have trusted the system because of the belief that everyone on the list has an equal opportunity to receive an organ and also that allocation is blind to matters of financial standing, celebrity or political power. Recent events have revealed that certain practices and (...)
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  • The Efficiency/equity Puzzle And The Race Issue In Kidney Allocation: A Reply To Ayres, Et Al. And Unos.Lloyd Cohen & Melisa Michelsen - 1996 - Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 4.
    In 1993 an article entitled Unequal Racial Access to Kidney Transplantation, argued that the system of kidney allocation in the United States, though facially neutral, unfairly discriminated against Blacks, and proposed amending the organ allocation rules to improve the prospect of Black patients receiving organs. In 1995 the United Network For Organ Sharing adopted changes in its allocation rules much like those favored in Unequal Racial Access.... Was this appropriate? What should an organ allocation system seek to accomplish? Our answer (...)
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