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| Sigrid Fry-Revere | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Smith College; Georgetown University |
Sigrid Fry-Revere is an American medical ethicist and lawyer who has worked on many issues in patient care ethics, but most recently has been working on the rights of living organ donors.
Background
Fry-Revere worked as an attorney, practicing bioethics, health, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration law with the law firm of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn. She worked as an adjunct professor of ethics and healthcare law at George Mason University College of Nursing and Health Science and as an associate professor at the University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics. She formerly served as Director of Bioethics Studies at the Cato Institute.
Community involvement
Fry-Revere has served as a medical ethicist on the Washington Regional Transplant Community Organ and Tissue Advisory Committee (2008-2018). WRTC is the Organ Procurement Organization (from deceased donors) for Washington, DC and neighboring regions in Maryland and Virginia.
Publications
Fry-Revere has written four books, the most recent of which is The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran (2014) which resulted in a TEDMED talk given at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in 2014. Her research in Iran also resulted in two academic articles, "Coercion, dissatisfaction, and social stigma: an ethnographic study of compensated living kidney donation in Iran" in International Urology and Nephrology 1-12 (March 2018), and "Introducing an Exploitation/Fair Dealings Scale for Evaluating Living Organ Donor Policies Using Iran as the Test Case" in World Medical and Health Policy (May 2018). Her article "Where’s the Safety Net?" appeared on the front page of the Huffington Post (June 2016) and "Between Scylla and Charybdis: Charting an Ethical Course for Research into Financial Incentives for Living Kidney Donation" was published in The American Journal of Transplantation (February 2016).
She has also written Defining Death: A New Legal Perspective (2014), Ethics & Answers in Home Health Care: A Practical Guide for Dealing with Bioethical Issues in Your Organization (1995), and The Accountability of Bioethics Committees and Consultants (1992). To books edited by others she contributed “Terminally Ill Patients Should Be Allowed to Use Experimental Drugs” (Prescription Drugs, 2008); “Federal Money and Oversight for Stem Cell Research” (Should the Government Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research?, 2009); and "Bioethics Consultation Services" (BioLaw).
Additional articles
- Ronald Hamowy, ed. (2008). "Bioethics". The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Cato Institute. pp. 33–35. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n21. ISBN 978-1412965804.
- Ronald Hamowy, ed. (2008). "Euthanasia". The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, Cato Institute. pp. 156–158. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n98. ISBN 978-1412965804.
References
- Fry-Revere, Sigrid; Bastani, Bahar (April 2014). "Sigrid Fry-Revere on Ethics of National and International Organ Markets". Journal of Social Sciences (Coes&Rj-JSS). 3 (2): 286–300.
- "Sigrid Fry-Revere on Iran's Kidney Market, Presentation at CATO". May 2014.
- "DC Public Library - 'The Kidney Sellers' by Sigrid Fry-Revere". dclibrary.org (archived). Archived from the original on 29 March 2014.
- "The Rutgers Journal of Bioethics" (PDF). 2019.
- "National Review: We Should Follow Iran's Kidney Selling OK?". National Review. February 2014.
- "Bioethicist and living donor advocate Sigrid Fry-Revere challenges the current organ donor system with questions about why Iran's system is more responsible and ethical". EMU News. 2015-09-15. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- "Sigrid Fry-Revere | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- "Sigrid Fry-Revere". Libertarianism.org (archived). Archived from the original on 6 August 2019.