Making the Most of Strangers' Altruism

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 30 (3):446-447 (2002)
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Abstract

Lainie Ross, in her article in this issue, criticizes on ethical grounds a number of factors in the University of Minnesota program that allows unrelated strangers to donate kidneys for transplant. I have to admit that when the transplant center at the University proposed allowing the practice of what came to be called nondirected donation, I was skeptical about a number of the same issues that trouble Dr. Ross. But as my colleagues and I examined and discussed the ethics of such a plan, along with the risks to prospective donors, their possible motivations, and the logistics of performing the surgeries under conditions of anonymity between donor and recipient, among other factors, we came to believe that such donations can be ethically acceptable. As a product of frequent meetings over the course of a year in advance of the first nondirected donation, we set out to craft a process that would first and foremost meet the test of an ethical approach to organ donation and transplant, the description of which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in August 2000.

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Solid Organ Donation between Strangers.Lainie Friedman Ross - 2002 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 30 (3):440-445.
Solid Organ Donation Between Strangers.Lainie Friedman Ross - 2002 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 30 (3):440-445.

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