Paediatric organ donors

Paying organ donors.

Following an earlier paper in the journal in which Evans argued that it was commercial exploitation, not mere payment, that was morally objectionable about certain sorts of organ donation, this paper looks at the moral issues when commercial exploitation is eliminated from systems of paid organ donation. It argues that there are no conclusive moral arguments against such schemes for non-exploit...

Organ Donors ( Not ) by Default ?

[100 words to be written] More people approve of organ donation than register to be donors. In the United States, a recent poll showed that 81% of Americans approve of organ donation. However, in the states with the highest donor signup rates (through the Motor Vehicle Administrations), only half this number elect to opt in to the donor registry. Given the high approval level, why the low regis...

Nonhuman primates as organ donors?

Baboons and pigs are potential source animals for human xenotransplantation. For practical reasons, baboons have been proposed by only a handful of US surgeons to demonstrate “proof of concept”. The Loma Linda paediatric heart transplant performed by Leonard Bailey in 1986 received a lot of negative publicity because of ethical concerns about “experimenting” on a newborn baby. Nevertheless, fur...

Organ transplants from living donors.

A. Survey of Transplantation Techniques The kidney is one of the few organs which can successfully be transplanted from a living donor with current techniques. Since a healthy donor can function satisfactorily with a single kidney, the removal of one of them for transplantation does not significantly endanger live.1,2,3 Removal, or substantial partial removal, of other organs, such a the heart,...

Kind strangers: the families of organ donors.