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Transplantation Ethics: Old Questions, New Answers?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2001

MICHAEL DeVITA ,
MARK P. AULISIO  and
THOMAS MAY
MICHAEL DeVITA
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
MARK P. AULISIO
Affiliation:
Clinical Ethics Program at MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University Center for Biomedical Ethics, Cleveland, Ohio
THOMAS MAY
Affiliation:
Graduate Program in Bioethics at the Center for the Study of Bioethics, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Abstract

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The first reported successful kidney transplantation occurred in 1954, between twins. Since then, organ donation and transplantation has become less a medical marvel than a common expectation of patients with a variety of diseases resulting in organ failure. Those expectations have caused demand for organs to skyrocket far beyond available supply, fueling an organ shortage and resulting in over 60,000 patients on transplant waiting lists. In this special issue, our contributors attempt to shed new light on some of the many old ethical questions raised by transplant in the contemporary context of extreme scarcity.

Type
GUEST EDITORIAL
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 2001 , pp. 357 - 360
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press