Chances and Changes

Marcus Maldonado, Wake Forest University School of Law JD '24 She loved to watch her grandchildren fight and laugh. It always seemed like one or the other. She considered herself a rich woman, surrounded by family and those she loved. In this respect, at least, she was. In others, not so much. She had immigrated …

The Human Thrift Store: An Introduction Into Organ Procurement and Donation

By John Talbot, WFU JD/MA in Bioethics Candidate '21 History The first successful organ transplant occurred in 1954, when one twenty-three-year-old male donated his kidney to his identical twin brother.[1]  Since this first successful transplant, advances in science have allowed more widespread access to transplants, a greater variety of organs capable of transplantation,  and better …