Organ transplant initiatives: the twilight zone.
Open Access
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Medical Ethics
- Vol. 23 (3), 170-175
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.23.3.170
Abstract
Assessments of the acceptability of new transplantation practices require a pinpointing of not only the meaning of death, but also the timing of death. They typically perceive elective ventilation as occurring just prior to death and non-heart-beating donor protocols as operative just after death. However, such practices in fact highlight the general vagueness and ambiguity surrounding these issues in both law and ethics. Supply-side dilemmas in transplantation lend real urgency to this "life or death" debate.Keywords
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