Editing Virginia Postrel (section)

==Health care, bioethics, and aesthetics==
Postrel has written several articles on health care and bioethics, including accounts of her own experiences.

In March 2006 Postrel [[Kidney transplantation|donated a kidney]] to an acquaintance, writer [[Sally Satel]].<ref>{{cite web |last= Shlaes |first= Amity |url= http://www.amityshlaes.com/articles/2006/2006-03-15.php |title= I Would Give My Left Kidney to Prove I'm Right: Amity Shlaes |publisher= Bloomberg |date= 2006-03-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16kidney-t.html |title= Desperately Seeking a Kidney |author= Satel, Sally |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= December 16, 2007 |access-date= 2013-10-01}}</ref> She has recounted the experience, and referred to it in several subsequent articles and blog posts, many of which are critical of legal prohibitions against compensating organ donors. In some of the pieces, she discusses strategies for working around these restrictions, such as organ donor transplant chains.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.dynamist.com/articles-speeches/opeds/kidney.html |title= Virginia Postrel on donating a kidney |publisher= Dynamist.com |access-date= 2013-10-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= Postrel, Virginia |url= https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/07/with-functioning-kidneys-for-all/7587/ |title= With Functioning Kidneys for All - Virginia Postrel |publisher= The Atlantic |date= 2009-07-09 |access-date= 2013-10-01}}</ref>

In her March 2009 article "My Drug Problem" in ''The Atlantic'', Postrel wrote about her own experience of being treated for [[breast cancer]] with the expensive drug [[Herceptin]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/03/my-drug-problem/7279/ |title= My Drug Problem |date= March 2009 |publisher= Theatlantic.com |access-date= 2013-10-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= Postrel, Virginia |url= https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/03/defending-ldquo-my-drug-problem-rdquo/7389/ |title= Defending "My Drug Problem" - Virginia Postrel |publisher= The Atlantic |date= 2009-03-30 |access-date= 2013-10-01}}</ref> She questioned if such a costly treatment would be available to others and if the risky research that makes such innovative treatments possible would be profitable under the proposed health care reforms in the United States.

Postrel has also referred to her experience as a [[cancer]] patient in her writing about the importance of design aesthetics in hospitals and the competitive forces that drive them to create more attractive environments for patients.<ref>{{cite web |author= Postrel, Virginia |url= https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/04/the-art-of-healing/6705/ |title= The Art of Healing - Virginia Postrel |publisher= The Atlantic |date= 2008-04-01 |access-date= 2013-10-01}}</ref> This ties into the thesis of her second book, that [[beauty]] is more than simply a superficial, frivolous trait and can go more than skin deep. Notions of beauty and desirability, and thoughts on what makes good design good beyond the needs of [[sound engineering]], informed her work at the "Deep Glamour" blog.