ABSTRACT
Chapter I demonstrated that better methods of organizing the swapping of organs among persons living and dead are unlikely to satisfy the huge million-organ-ayear needs of patients (for the US, Europe and Japan alone). Human ingenuity was especially likely to turn to technology to address this gap because organ transplantation was, itself, a creature of technology. Indeed, there is a prolific array of potential technological fixes to the organ gap. While it is impossible to definitively pick the ultimate "winning technology," it is highly likely that animal organs will be part of the transplant surgeon's armamentarium for the dying patient of the 21 51 century.
