While the traffic in human organs stirs outrage and condemnation, donations of such material are perceived as highly ethical. In reality, the line between illicit trafficking and admirable donation is not so sharply drawn. Those entangled in the legal, social, and commercial dimensions of transplanting organs must reconcile motives, bureaucracy, and medical desperation. "Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants" examines the tensions between law and practice in the world of organ transplants and the inventive routes patients may take around the law while going...