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Transplantation Surgery pp 419–433Cite as

Ethics of Transplantation

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An anencephalic infant is born in North America, an HIV positive adult is declared brain dead in Africa, a convicted murderer is executed by gun shot to the head in Asia, an impoverished farmer offers to sell his kidney on the Indian subcontinent and a comatose stroke victim has life support withdrawn in Europe. Which of these is an acceptable organ donor and which of the hundreds of thousands of persons in the world with organ failure awaiting transplants should receive their organs? These are among the practical ethical issues of modern transplantation.

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  1. St Mary’s Hospital, Praed Street, W2 1NY, London, UK

    Nadey S. Hakim MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCSI, FACS, FICS (Consultant General and Transplant Surgeon, Surgical Director Transplant Unit) (Consultant General and Transplant Surgeon, Surgical Director Transplant Unit)

  2. Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Programs, BH-427 Center for the Health Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Box 951796, 90095-1796, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Gabriel M. Danovitch MD (Professor of Medicine) (Professor of Medicine)

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Bollinger, R.R. (2001). Ethics of Transplantation. In: Hakim, N.S., Danovitch, G.M. (eds) Transplantation Surgery. Springer Specialist Surgery Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3689-7_20

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