“On valentine’s day two years ago, Paul Wagner, a 40-year-old Philadelphia purchasing manager, gave Gail Tomas, a total stranger, his left kidney. Wagner met Tomas, a 65-year-old former opera singer, on the internet, at MatchingDonors.com. Her daughter had posted an ad asking some magnificent stranger to save her mother. ‘It was there that I read about a lady in my city, Philadelphia, who was desperate for help’, Wagner said. ‘It has been one of the best decisions I have ever made’. This story had a happy ending. Yet it unfolded amid controversy over whether ethical norms were violated …” (more)
[Sally Satel, Policy Review, Feb/Mar]