The Living Organ Donor as Patient: Theory and Practice

When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap.
Today, we are no closer to the goal of adequate organ supply without living donors--if anything, the supply-demand ratio is worse. While most research on the ethics of organ transplantation focuses on how to allocate organs as a scarce medical resource, the ethical treatment of organ donors themselves has been relatively neglected. In The Living Organ Donor as Patient: Theory and Practice, Lainie Friedman Ross and J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr. argue that living donor organ transplantation can be ethical provided that we treat living solid organ donors as patients in their own right.

Ross and Thistlethwaite develop a five-principle framework to examine some of the attempts to increase living donation. It uses the three principles of the Belmont Report: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice modified to organ transplantation, as well as the principles of vulnerability and special relationships creating special obligations. Their approach requires that the transpla

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Lainie Friedman Ross and J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr.

ISBN:

978-0-19-761820-2

Specialty:

• Transplantation

Language:

English

Edition:

1st Ed.

Pages:

408

Publication Year:

2021

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