Click play to listen. Recorded on November 14, 2010.
For years, the knotty issues of organ donation, altruism, profit, exploitation, and quality of life have prompted reflection from biomedical ethicists and lay people alike. In this panel, two writers who have been affected personally by organ donation share their stories. Fiction writer and poet Richard McCann is at work on The Resurrectionist, a memoir about his experience as a liver transplant recipient. Joining him is Chicago Sun-Times journalist Chris Fusco, whose very public story of organ donation and loss was chronicled in his own newspaper nearly 10 years ago. Dr. John Franklin, associate professor of psychiatry and surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine moderates.
