Altruism has long been taken to be the guiding principle of ethical organ donation in the UK,
and has been used as justification for rejecting or allowing certain types of donation. We …

The idea of removing organs from the dead and transplant-ing them into the living is
disturbing to some people, and leads to concerns about commodification of the human body …

Arguments against directed altruistic living organ donation are too weak to justify a ban.
Potential donors who want to specify the non-related person or group of persons to receive …

Background. Several transplant centers have begun to accept kidneys donated by altruistic
living strangers. Many of these centers insist that such donations be nondirected, meaning …

Background. Policies with respect to altruistic living kidney donation to strangers (both
nondirected and directed donation) should, in addition to medical criteria, preferably be …

The second edition of a major text provides a thorough exploration of medical law and
ethics, written from the perspective of authors who are medical and health care practitioners …

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to permit members of the public opportunity to
record more nuanced wishes in relation to organ donation. Recent developments in organ …

There are substantial numbers of frozen embryos in storage that will not be used by those
who produced them for their own fertility treatment. One option for such embryos is to donate …

It has often been proposed to restrict access to postmortal organs to registered donors, or at
least to give them priority on the waiting list. Such proposals are motivated by considerations …

Uterus transplantation (UTx) is highly anticipated for the benefits that it might bring to
individuals wanting to carry a pregnancy in order to reproduce who do not have a …