Selling Human Organs
Transplant Tourism and Regulated Markets
Prof. Glenn Cohen
Harvard Law School
With over 100,000 Americans waiting for life saving organ transplants, why are human organ sales criminally prohibited? Harvard professor and leading expert Glenn Cohen breaks down the regulations governing organ transplantation, describes the dangers of transplant tourism, and suggests alternative schemes that we may see in the coming years.
About Prof. Glenn Cohen
“We’ve outsourced our problem, our problem being our need for organs and our inability to procure enough of them.”
Prof. Cohen is one of the world's leading experts at the intersection of bioethics and the law, as well as health law. A professor at Harvard Law School, Glenn Cohen also serves as the Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
