Kirsten Wade 4 February 2013 EH 102/105 Wilkins Sally Satel’s “Death’s Waiting List” (387) In “Death’s Waiting List” written by Sally Satel‚ she states numerous reasons why the business of organ selling should be legalized. She believes that by offering some kind of “incentive” to donors‚ it would increase the number of organs donated. She also brings up many of the critics reasons for treating the body as if it was on the market‚ but she says they are simply just “outdated thinking.”
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Student’s last name 1 Student Date Argument Analysis Essay In her essay “Death’s Waiting List”‚ the author Sally Satel raises a debate over an organ-donation issue. Whereas this topic doesn’t fall into the area of interest of every single reader‚ she shares her story and succeeds to involve us by providing focused thesis‚ flexible arguments‚ and balanced tone. The author places her thesis in the first paragraph and it explicitly reflects her opinion regarding the reason of the shortage of donor-organs:
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Across the nation‚ people in need of transplants sit on a waiting list while the war on organ donation ethics continues. Some people are on the list up until their demise or get lucky‚ much like psychiatrist and author Sally Satel did. In her article “Death’s Waiting List”‚ Satel speaks of her fortunate experience of receiving a donated kidney and then proceeds to her desire to allow the market sale of human organs‚ so that others can be as opportune as she was (Critical Reading Thinking and Writing
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In the article “Death’s Waiting List” Sally Satel argues that the sale of organs should be allowed in the U.S. She hopes to convince the reader that the only guarantee of getting a transplant is to skip the wait list and just buy one. Although Satel makes a good argument she seems very biased and provides biased evidence to support her claims. Satel claims that there is a problem with organ donations. In order to prove this she begins her argument by stating that the wait for a kidney in a big
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with donations. They believe that if it is legalized then disadvantaged citizens would take advantage of this opportunity that should only be done for the great feeling of it‚ and not the money. Sally Satel believes that organ trafficking should be stopped by legalizing some type of donor rewards. Satel believes that if legalized then people would give more kidneys or any other organ to help people on the waiting list. She also believes that certain incentives should be given and not just straight
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Book Review 1 The book review is about the book titled “Brainwashed: the seductive appeal of mindless neuroscience”. The book was published a couple of years ago in 2013 in New York by Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld. I chose to write a review on this book because a couple of years ago when I started school at Portland State‚ I had joined a book club through the neuroscience club at PSU‚ where they chose this book for a term. During that time‚ the book was very trending due to some contemporary
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The question at hand is the idea of treating human organs as commodities morally concerning to you? First of all‚ the argument attempts to establish a moral difference between selling and donating. The first position we will discuss is offered by Sally Satel. She argues against the guiding
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ARGUMENTS FOR: More than 8‚000 people in the UK need a transplant‚ but a shortage of donors means that fewer than 3‚000 transplants are carried out annually. Advances in medical science mean that the number of people whose lives could be saved by a transplant is rising more rapidly than the number of willing donors. The law as it stands condemns many‚ some of them children‚ to an unnecessary death‚ simply because of the shortage of willing donors while‚ as the BMA puts it‚ ’bodies are buried or
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However‚ merchants often overprice their products which cause additional difficulties‚ such as the lack of currency‚ to the victim. Though‚ Dr. Satel suggests a system where‚ “a third party [such as the government or a charity] provides the reward‚ all patients‚ not just the financially secure‚ will benefit” (Humphreys 2014). In other words‚ Dr. Satel asserts that if the United States created a system in which the government or charities funded for these patients‚ those in need will be able to afford
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yet to be reached. According to a publication Is Addiction a Brain Disease? (1998) ‚ by two psychiatrists‚ Sally Satel‚ M.D.‚ and Frederick K. Goodwin‚ M.D.‚ both argue “the virtues of thinking about addiction as a primary‚ though modifiable‚ behavioral phenomenon‚ rather than simply as a brain disease”. That is‚ addiction is a function of a person‚ rather than simply a physical state” (Satel‚ Goodwin‚ 1998‚ p. 3). According to a publication by the National Institution of Drug Abuse (NIDA‚ 2007)‚
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