The Body Market: Race Politics & Private Ordering

Racial exploitation is now the powerful, conventional challenge to emerging discourses on alternative methodologies of procuring organs, especially markets. The evidence, including growing waitlists and thousands of deaths each year, informs us that altruistic organ procurement remains an ineffective approach to meet the growing demand for organs. This Article interrogates the altruism presumption and its concomitant race card politics and advocates a hybrid system, including both voluntary and privately ordered organ sharing.