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Organ Donation and Transplantation

Cristina De Pedro

PHIL 434 Medical Ethics

Professor Rosh Mishra

West Coast University

June 25th, 2021

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Organ Donation and Transplantation

Organ donation is surgically removing a person’s organ or tissue and placing it into another person (Cleveland Clinic, Organ Donation and Transplantation: How it works 2021). This is done when the recipient (the person receiving the organ) has an organ or tissue that has failed or has been damaged. For example, there are people who have bilateral kidney failure and have to be put on the list for a donated organ. Currently, there is poor availability of organ supply from human cadavers, which has caused an immense gap between demand and supply of organs; physicians and ethicists have a belief that problems like these can be potentially solved by providing better care and counseling with informed consent to the family of the deceased person (Abouna, Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation 2003).

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Potential References

Abouna, G. M. (2003, January 30). Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation. Medical Principles and Practice. https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/68158.

(Abouna, Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation 2003)

Cotrau, P., Hodosan, V., Vladu, A., Daina, C., Daina, L. G., & Pantis, C. (2019, March). Ethical, Socio-Cultural and Religious Issues in Organ Donation. Maedica. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511665/.

(Cotrau et al., Ethical, Socio-Cultural and Religious Issues in Organ Donation 2019)

Cleveland Clinic. (2021, May). Organ Donation and Transplantation: How it works. Cleveland Clinic. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/11750-organ-donation-and- transplantation.

(Cleveland Clinic, Organ Donation and Transplantation: How it works 2021)

U.S Department of Health & Human Services. (2015, June). Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. OPTN. https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/resources/ethics/ethical- principles-in-the-allocation-of-human-organs/.

(U.S Department of Health & Human Services, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network 2015)

Flaman, P. (2017). ORGAN AND TISSUE TRANSPLANTS: SOME ETHICAL ISSUES. Organ Transplants: Ethical Issues. https://sites.ualberta.ca/~pflaman/organtr.htm.

(Flaman, ORGAN AND TISSUE TRANSPLANTS: SOME ETHICAL ISSUES 2017)