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By Michele Goodwin. 294 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $30. ISBN 0-521-85280-3.

Michele Goodwin interweaves two stories throughout Black Markets. One is her account of the discrimination faced by minorities, primarily blacks, in organ transplantation. She finds institutional bias against minorities in organ procurement and allocation as well as in access to transplantation. She takes the position that because blacks and other minorities are disadvantaged under the current transplantation system, they should figure prominently in its reorganization.

Goodwin's second story is far more instructive and provocative. Here, her premise is that the current strategy for procuring organs is so unsound that we should consider her well-reasoned but controversial remedy. The current procurement . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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