Transplantation ethics

1. Religious and cultural perspectives

2. An ethical framework: General theories of ethics

Part I. Defining Death

3. The Dead Donor Rule and the concept of death

4. The Whole-Brain Concept of Death

5. The Circulatory, or Somatic, Concept of Death

6. The Higher-Brain Concept of Death

7. The Conscience Clause: How much individual choice can our society tolerate in defining death

8. Crafting a new definition-of-death law

Part II. Procuring Organs

9. The Donation Model

10. Routine salvaging and presumed consent

11. Markets for organs

12. Live-donor transplants

13. High-risk donors

14. Xenotransplants: Using organs from animals

15. The media's impact on transplants and directed donation

Part III. Allocating Organs

16. The roles of the clinician and the public

17. A general moral theory of organ allocation

18. Voluntary risks and allocation: Does the alcoholic deserve a new liver?

19. Multi-organ, split-organ, and repeat transplants

20. The role of age in allocation

21. The role of status: The cases of Mickey Mantle, Robert Casey, Steve Jobs, and Dick Cheney

22. Geography and other causes of allocation disparities

23. Socially directed donation: Restricting donation by social group

24. Elective organ transplantation

Vascularized composite allografts: Hand, face, and uterine transplants.

Introduction: religious and cultural perspectives on organ transplantation

An ethical framework

Brain death: welcome definition or dangerous judgment?

The definition of death: problems for public policy

The whole-brain-oriented concept of death: an outmoded philosophical formulation

The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death

The conscience clause: how much individual choice can society tolerate in defining death?

Crafting a new definition of death law

Gift or salvage: the two models of organ procurement

The myth of presumed consent: ethical problems in new organ procurement strategies - Required response: an alternative to presumed consent

Live-donor transplant: including the permanently unconscious and paired- and live-donor/cadaver exchanges

Non-heart-beating cadaver donors

Report of the Anencephaly Task Force of the Washington Regional Transplant Consortium

The role of age in procurement: minors and the elderly as organ sources

Tainted organs: HIV-positive and other controversial donors

The ethics of xenografts

Who empowers medical doctors to make allocative decisions for dialysis and organ transplantation?

A general theory of allocation

Voluntary risks and allocation: does the alcoholic deserve a new liver?

Multiorgan, split-organ, and repeat transplants

The role of age in allocation

The role of status: did Mickey Mantle get special treatment?

Urgency versus geography: the controversy between UNOS and Donna Shalala

Directed donation of organs for transplant: egalitarian and maximin approaches.