History professor Mary Jo Festle gave the Burkhardt Lecture at Knox College on Jan. 13, 2011, in a talk titled, “Lung Transplantation in the U.S.: The Historical, Personal, and Political.”
Festle, an alumna of Knox College in Illinois, described how and why the difficult decisions about how to allocate donor organs changed over the 50-year history of lung transplantation in the United States.
The talk also used excerpts from oral history interviews to highlight the experiences of people waiting for a lung transplant.