Organ donations.

Using reciprocity to motivate organ donations.

Directed and Conditional Deceased Donor Organ Donations: Laws and Misconceptions

∗ MRC Centre for Transplantation, King’s College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College, London. † School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University, Belfast. We would like to acknowledge that Dr. Antonia J Cronin’s PhD at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester wa...

Organ donations should not be restricted to relatives.

Should we remove whole organs from living donors only in the case where they are genetically related to the intended recipients of such organs? The practice in a majority of European nations is to apply such a restriction. Yet this restriction obviously limits the availability of already scarce donor organs, and curtails the opportunities for altruistic action on the part of those who, in any g...

[The media and organ donations: the production of donating subjects].

This is a qualitative study with an exploratory approach, situated in the field of cultural studies, using the tool proposed by Michel Foucault for textual analysis. It aims at analyzing how discourses transmitted by the media affect subjects and institute them as organ donors. The analysis corpus was made up of articles from the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, which is considered to be the most ...

Health Matters: Human Organ Donations, Sales, and the Black Market

In this paper I explore the human organ procurement system. Which is better for saving lives and limiting black market use, the present altruistic system of donations or a free and open sales market? I explain that there is a risk with maintaining the present system, the altruistic vision, and that people may die who might otherwise live if the sale of organs was permitted. But there is no guar...