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Benjamin Rush Debate: "Allowing a Market for Organs Would Benefit Both Patients and Donors"

Benjamin Rush
May 22, 2014
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
112 Meiling Hall, 370 West 9th Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

The OSU Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities in Collaboration and the Benjamin Rush Institute with Arthur N. Rupe Foundation Creative Solutions for Societal Issues invites you to attend the Benjamin Rush Institute’s Annual Spring Debate. Mark Cherry, St. Edwards University will debate the affirmative and Ohio State’s Amy Pope-Harman will take the opposed position for the 5:30 p.m. Thursday (5/22) event in Meiling Hall Auditorium. Ohio State’s Ryan Nash will moderate.

Be it Resolved: Allowing a market for organs would benefit both patients and donors.

Affirmative:

  • Dr. Mark Cherry, St. Edwards University, TX;  author of “Kidney for sale by owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market”

Opposed:

Moderator:

  • Dr. Ryan R. Nash, Director of Medical Ethics for The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center

 

This event is free and open to the public; please RSVP by going to this page.
 
This debate will be live-streamed and can be accessed at the link below.  (The listed times are Eastern time zone.)