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Sperm Donation from a Comatose, Dying Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

KENNETH V. ISERSON
KENNETH V. ISERSON
Affiliation:
Program in Bioethics, and the Bioethics Committee at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson
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Abstract

The patient was a 19-year-old man who was the victim of an accidental head injury. The attending neurosurgeon felt that, due to uncontrollable and repeated elevated intracranial pressures, the patient would die within 48 hours. The patient's mother requested that the neurosurgeon contact a urologist to collect the patient's sperm for implantation into the patient's girlfriend. The neurosurgeon felt that the situation raised a number of ethical issues and requested that the hospital's bioethics committee consider the case.

Type
ETHICS COMMITTEES AT WORK
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 209 - 213
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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