Organ Donation and Transplantation

Authors: Robertson, John A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the proposals to change the dead donor rules to meet the needs for organ donation in the United States. Limitations of the dead donor rule; Relation of brain death to the dead donor rule; Proposal to allow the retrieval o...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Resnik, David B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the case of Jessica Santillan, a 17-year-old girl who died after receiving mismatched heart and lungs. Background on her medical condition; Analysis of the medical error conducted by Duke Medical Center after Santillan's s...
Year: 2003

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:41

Authors: Murphy, Timothy F.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the ethical aspects of transplanting multiple vital organs in one patient. Details of a report published in the medical journal 'Lancet,' regarding several cases of multiple-vital-organ transplants; Ethical question raised...
Year: 2002

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:31

Authors: Menikoff, Jerry
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the effectiveness of different market mechanisms in improving the level of organ donations in the United States. Kidney-swap transaction; Exchange of money for an organ; Kidney-for-liver variant; Consequences of cadaver d...
Year: 1999

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:24

Authors: Markovitz, Barry ; May, Larry
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents information on organ donation procedures, with emphasis on the occurrences of patients `jumping the queue' by having directed donation. In-depth look at the fairness of this occurrence; Perception held by health care worker...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:20

Authors: Kahn, Jeffrey P.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article examines lessons for the policy environment of stem cell research in the U.S. A range of ethical, legal and policy issues arose when advances in technology allowed solid organs to be transplanted. Existing policy concern...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2007.0025

Authors: Joralemon, Donald ; Cox, Phil
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Provides information on ethical issues about the financial compensation for organ donation. Legislative proposals in the U.S. Congress on compensation for cadaveric donations; Alternatives of organ donation; Criticisms against the a...
Year: 2003

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:06

Authors: Hanson, Mark J. ; Russow, Lilly-Marlene
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents several commentaries on the applications of xenotransplantation protocol. Effectiveness of xenotransplantation; Ethical considerations concerning medical innovations; Impact of genetic engineering on xenotransplantation; Ef...
Year: 1999

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:58

Authors: Hanson, Mark J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Identifies themes of medical progress particularly that of the xenograft technologies. Scientific uncertainty/clinical imminence; Confidence in controlling risk; Rational and the real versus the emotional and hypothetical; Reputatio...
Year: 1995

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:58

Authors: Dwyer, James ; Vig, Elizabeth
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Criticizes the standard way of thinking about organ transplantation between siblings. Standard approach; Two case presentations; Egocentric character of the reasoning; Ethical consideration; Consideration of the family relationships...
Year: 1995

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:42

Authors: Brudney, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article examines the right of an alcoholic to a liver transplant. The common belief in the U.S. is that those with health-risky conduct have a weaker claim to medical resources. There is a problem in determining the degree of th...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2007.0001

Authors: Arnason, W. B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Comments on the difficulty in finding well-matched kidneys for transplantation into black Americans. Asserts that a program of directed donation that privileged black-to-black transplantation could ease the chronic shortage of organ...
Year: 1991

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:05

Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses bioethical issues arising from the public solicitation of organ donors via the Internet. Risks associated with public solicitation; Significance of the public solicitation practice to transplant organizations; Implications...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.0052

Authors: Miller, Franklin G. ; Truog, Robert D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article focuses on the ethical implications of vital organ donations. Under the dead donor rule, retrieval of vital organs are deemed permissible only for dead patients, including those diagnosed as brain dead. However, ethical ...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0085

Authors: Moazam, Farhat ; Zaman, Riffat Moazam ; Jafarey, Aamir M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article presents an ethnographic study about kidney vending in Punjab, Pakistan. It contains narratives of kidney vendors about their business and what it means to them and their families. They complained about symptoms related ...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0136

Authors: Niewijk, Alexandria
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the debate over the continuation of heart transplantation at Groote Schuur Hospital and in other South African hospitals. Significance of heart transplantation in post-apartheid South Africa; Racial issues concerning hear...
Year: 1999

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:35

Authors: Martin, Rosemary ; Australian National University, School of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In this interrupted case, students examine the concept of unconsciousness and develop an understanding of how clinicians diagnose death. Developed for a freshman course in human biology, the case focuses on brain death, but raises r...
Year: 2003
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=227&id=227

Authors: Yaich, Lauren ; University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Division of Biological and Health Sciences
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In this case study about a baby born with the genetic condition holoprosencephaly, students explore the “Sonic hedgehog” gene, signal transduction, and the ethics of body and tissue donation. The assignment involves students writing...
Year: 2001
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=380&id=380

Authors: Keller, David R. ; Cox-White, Becky ; Hinman, Lawrence ; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Robert Ladenson ; Connolly, Peggy ; Leever, Martin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Since 1998 Americans have increasingly traveled to China to receive organ transplants from executed prisoners. ...
Year: 2002
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Chinese%20Organ%20Donations.pdf

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Luiza Magardician, a twenty year old Romanian citizen arrived in New York in June 1985 in the hope of obtaining a kidney transplant. Before her arrival, all available methods of treatment were tried unsuccessfully in Romania. Howeve...
Year: 1994
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Organ%20Donation.pdf

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In November of last year the Board of the United Network of Organ Sharing, a private group, overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that controls allocation of organs for transplant, adopted a major revision in...
Year: 1997

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Authors: Trew, Andrew ; Smith, Martin L. ; McClure, Michael ; Lauritzen, Paul
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the moral and ethical aspects of organ procurement. How to understand the gift of life metaphor as applied to organ procurement; Public opinion on organ procurement; Problems with organ procurement; Need for a communal app...
Year: 2001

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:14

Authors: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1994, the state of Missouri convicted Jamie Scott and her sister Gladys of robbery and sentenced them each to two life terms. The sisters denied any part in the ambush and $11.00 robbery of two men. Following a lengthy campaign t...
Year: 2012
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Prision%20Break.pdf

Authors: Robert Ladenson ; Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In November of last year the Board of the United Network of Organ Sharing, a private group, overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that controls allocation of organs for transplant, adopted a major revision in...
Year: 1997
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/organ%20transplant.pdf

Authors: Georgetown University Undergraduate Bioethics Society ; Whyte, Kyle ; Reider, Travis ; American Society for Bioethics + Humanities ; Nelson, James Lindemann ; Heurer, Kelly ; Henderson, Macey ; Hedahl, Marcus
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Insurance companies have been financing organ transplant tourism for a number of years as a way to get around the short supply of available organs. However, at least five national and international bodies have strong and longstandin...
Year: 2013
URL: http://nubc2013.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/BB-Cases-Nos-1-14-Final.pdf