Does Our Organ Transplant System Exploit Undocumented Immigrants?
“Be careful when you travel, or you might wake up in a bathtub missing a kidney!” Many of us have heard some variation o...
“Be careful when you travel, or you might wake up in a bathtub missing a kidney!” Many of us have heard some variation o...
by James L. Bernat, MD This editorial can be found in the Feburary 2023 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. Over...
Abstract The past decade has witnessed escalating legal and ethical challenges to the diagnosis of death by neurologic c...
Publish date:You can read this editorial and other articles in this month’s issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. by José...
Abstract Transplantation programs commonly rely on clinicians’ judgments about patients’ social support (care from frien...
Publish date:Abstract The number of transplant surgeries has risen steadily in the last 30 years in the United States (US), while the...
Publish date:by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. A ProPublica investigation discovered a pattern in some transplant patients at Newark Beth Israe...
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Few people would say that the system of payment and organ distribution is perfect. About 37 mill...
Exploring ethical issues in medical dramas The Resident (Season 2; Episode 23): Unrepresented patient and substance abus...
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Exploring bioethical issues in television medical dramas New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 19): P...
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In the last few years, the hospital where I serve on the ethics committee has seen a dramatic up...
by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. Researchers at Yale University recently reported an experiment in which they used an experimenta...