Rethinking the Ethics of Vital Organ Donations

Hastings Center Report 38 (6):38-46 (2008)
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Abstract

Accepted medical practice already violates the dead donor rule. Explicitly jettisoning the rule—allowing vital organs to be extracted, under certain conditions, from living patients—is a radical change only at the conceptual level. But it would expand the pools of eligible organ donors.

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