Between a rock and a hard place: the incommensurate ethics of emotionally-related living organ donation
At the end of 2007, over 71,000 candidates in the United States were awaiting a kidney transplant. That same year, 16,622 kidney transplants took place [1]. The growing shortage of organs in the face of escalating need has placed pressure on transplant centers to accept organs from voluntary living...
| Published in: | University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine |
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University of Ottawa
2014-05-01
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| Online Access: | https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index.php/uojm-jmuo/article/view/1037 |