With a scarcity of organ donors, is it time to change the law so that people could buy and sell their organs?
200 people die whilst waiting for a transplant every year. The number of donor organs available from road accident victims is decreasing. Imagine if you had had three kidney transplants and were waiting for a fourth. What if there wasn't a donor kidney available? Would you be prepared to sit and wait, knowing that death might arrive before the kidney transplant?
Philosopher Janet Radcliffe Wright talks to doctors and kidney patients about the ethical rights and wrongs of selling transplant organs.
Diana Lazenby, 1998. © Culham College Institute