Attitudes to death are non-rational and culturally determined. This is relevant to concerns
about shortages of organs for transplantation. Consent is not possible from a dead donor …

In a paper in the last issue of Clinical Medicine, 1 some of the background to attitudes to
newly dead bodies, the current context of an urgent need for organs for transplant and the …

In a recent set of papers, Aaron Spital has proposed conscription or routine recovery of
cadaveric organs without consent as a way of ameliorating the severe shortage of organs for …

This paper explores difficulties around consent in the context of organ retention and return. It
addresses the proposals of the Independent Review Group in Scotland on the Retention of …

JICS Volume 9, Number 2, July 2008 117 happens to our organs after death. It also
impinges upon what we mean by death. Epicurus7 stated that “Death is of no concern to us; …

In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of
Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics. They …

There seems to be little doubt that the public is broadly in favour of organ and tissue
transplantation. For end-stage disease of at least three organs (heart, kidney and liver) …

Abstract Several European countries including Germany and, until recently, the UK, have
adopted an opt-in system for organ donation, where individuals who wish to become organ …

In an earlier article, I argued that David Estlund's notion of 'normative consent'could provide
justification for an opt-out system of organ donation that does not involve presumptions …

The dead donor rule—that persons must be dead before their organs are taken—is a central
part of the moral framework underlying organ procurement. Efforts to increase the pool of …