Death, organ transplantation and medical practice

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 3:5 (2008)
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Abstract

A series of papers in Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) have recently disputed whether non-heart beating organ donors are alive and whether non-heart beating organ donation (NHBD) contravenes the dead donor rule. Several authors who argue that NHBD involves harvesting organs from live patients appeal to

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