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A number of individuals involved with the effective altruism community or adjacent to it have donated a kidney, including Alexander Berger (Berger 2011),[1] Jeremiah Johnson (Johnson 2019),Johnson,[2] Zell Kravinsky (Parker 2004),Kravinsky,[3] Dylan Matthews (Matthews 2017),[4] Michael Page (Beard, Daniels & Smith 2017),Page,[5] and others (Singer 2015: ch. 6).others.[6]

BibliographyFurther reading

Beard, Matt, Molly Daniels & Carl SmithGalef, Julia (2017) Would you donate yourThe science and ethics of kidney to a stranger?donation (Dylan Matthews), Short & CurlyRationally Speaking, September 13.February 5.

Parker, Ian (2004) The gift, The New Yorker, July 25.

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    Berger, Alexander (2011) Why selling kidneys should be legal, The New York Times, December 5.

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    Johnson, Jeremiah (2019) Last week I donated my left kidney anonymously to a total stranger on the kidney waitlist. AMA!, Reddit, July 1.

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    Parker, Ian (2004) The gift, The New Yorker, July 25.

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    Matthews, Dylan (2017) Why I gave my kidney to a stranger — and why you should consider doing it too, Vox, April 11.

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    Parker, Ian (2004)Beard, Matt, Molly Daniels & Carl Smith (2017) The giftWould you donate your kidney to a stranger?, The New YorkerShort & Curly, July 25.September 13.

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    Singer, Peter (2015) The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically, New Haven: Yale University Press.Press, ch. 6.