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Rethinking the Ethics of Vital Organ Donations
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 38, Number 6, November-December 2008
- pp. 38-46
- 10.1353/hcr.0.0085
- Article
- Additional Information
Accepted medical practice already violates the dead donor rule. Explicitly jettisoning the rule—allowing vital organs to be extracted, under certain conditions, from living patients—is a radical change only at the conceptual level. But it would expand the pools of eligible organ donors.