An ethical market in human organs
Tags: DONATION of organs, tissues, etc.; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; ORGAN donors; MEDICAL ethics; BIOETHICS
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- Elective ventilation for organ donation: law, policy and public ethics. Coggon, John // Journal of Medical Ethics;Mar2013, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p130
This paper examines questions concerning elective ventilation, contextualised within English law and policy. It presents the general debate with reference both to the Exeter Protocol on elective ventilation, and the considerable developments in legal principle since the time that that protocol...
- Is providing elective ventilation in the best interests of potential donors? McGee, Andrew John; White, Benjamin Peter // Journal of Medical Ethics;Mar2013, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p135
In this paper, we examine the lawfulness of a proposal to provide elective ventilation to incompetent patients who are potential organ donors. Under the current legal framework, this depends on whether the best interests test could be satisfied. It might be argued that, because the Mental...
- State Statutes that Address Compensation for Living Organ Donors. // Human Rights;Spring2003, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p21
The article lists statutes in various U.S. states that address compensation for living organ donors.
- Sisters Share Special Bond After Rare Living-Donor
Transplant. // Ascribe Newswire: Medicine;4/23/2004, p44
Jessica Eveleth will celebrate her 21st birthday on April 20, but she's already received the gift of a lifetime. Her sister Jamie, 18, donated a segment of her small intestine to Jessica in a rare living-donor transplant at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago on March 23.
- Tissue donation. // Nursing Standard;9/19/2007, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p59
The article talks about staff nurse and theater practitioner Suzanne Ward's working knowledge of tissue donation. The benefits of tissue transplantation not only for the recipients but also for the bereaved relatives, who may take some comfort in knowing their loved one has been able to help...
- The living donor advocate: a team approach to educate, evaluate, and manage donors across the continuum. Rudow, Dianne LaPointe // Progress in Transplantation;Mar2009, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p64
Living donor transplant has developed as a direct result of the critical shortage of deceased donors. Federal regulations require transplant programs to appoint an independent donor advocate to ensure safe evaluation and care of live donors. Ethical and pragmatic issues surround the donor...
- Ethical guidelines for the evaluation of living organ donors. Wright, Linda; Faith, Karen; Richardson, Robert; Grant, David // Canadian Journal of Surgery;Dec2004, Vol. 47 Issue 6, p408
Transplantation is an effective, life-prolonging treatment for organ failure, Demand has steadily increased over the past decade, creating a shortage in the supply of organs. In addition, the number of deceased organ donors has reached a plateau. Living-donor transplantation is increasingly an...
- Liver transplantation using 'donation after circulatory death' donors: the ethics of managing the end-of-life care of potential donors to achieve organs suitable for transplantation. Moorlock, Greg; Draper, Heather; Bramhall, Simon R. // Clinical Ethics;2011, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p134
The decline in organs donated after brain death has been countered by an increase in organs donated after circulatory death. Organs donated after circulatory death present an increased risk of complications for their eventual recipients when compared with organs donated after brain death, so the...
- The Ethics of Organ Donation by Living Donors. Truog, Robert D. // New England Journal of Medicine;8/4/2005, Vol. 353 Issue 5, p444
Discusses the ethics of organ donation by living donors. How this situation presents an unique ethical dilemma, in that physicians must risk the life of a healthy person to save or improve the life of a patient; Three categories of donation by living persons; Ethical concerns for each type of...
