Subject: Organ Transplant & Donation

Organ Transplant & Donation

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...

May 18, 2023

Editorial-AJOB, Organ Transplant & Donation

Clarifying the DDR and DCD

by James L. Bernat, MD This editorial can be found in the Feburary 2023 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. Over...

January 25, 2023

Neuroethics, Organ Transplant & Donation, Philosophy & Ethics

Legal and Ethical Considerations for Requiring Consent for Apnea Testing in Brain Death Determination

Abstract The past decade has witnessed escalating legal and ethical challenges to the diagnosis of death by neurologic c...

Publish date:
1st January 1970
Editorial-AJOB, Organ Transplant & Donation

Why It is Important to Consider Social Support When Assessing Organ Transplant Candidates?

You can read this editorial and other articles in this month’s issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. by José...

October 29, 2019

Organ Transplant & Donation

Should Lack of Social Support Prevent Access to Organ Transplantation?

Abstract Transplantation programs commonly rely on clinicians’ judgments about patients’ social support (care from frien...

Publish date:
1st January 1970
Organ Transplant & Donation

Why It is Important to Consider Social Support When Assessing Organ Transplant Candidates?

Abstract The number of transplant surgeries has risen steadily in the last 30 years in the United States (US), while the...

Publish date:
1st January 1970
Organ Transplant & Donation, Professional Ethics

When Patients Are Maintained to Improve Hospital Stats: A Case Study

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. A ProPublica investigation discovered a pattern in some transplant patients at Newark Beth Israe...

October 8, 2019

Clinical Trials & Studies, Health Care, Health Regulation & Law, HIV/AIDS, Informed Consent, Organ Transplant & Donation, Privacy, Public Health

Executive Order Changes Approaches to Treating Kidney Disease

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Few people would say that the system of payment and organ distribution is perfect. About 37 mill...

July 10, 2019

BioethicsTV, Decision making, Informed Consent, Organ Transplant & Donation

BioethicsTV (May 6-10) #TheResident; #ChicagoMed

Exploring ethical issues in medical dramas The Resident (Season 2; Episode 23): Unrepresented patient and substance abus...

May 14, 2019

BioethicsTV, Organ Transplant & Donation, Politics

BioethicsTV (April 21-May 2, 2019): #NewAmsterdam, #TheResident, #GreysAnatomy

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Exploring bioethical issues in television medical dramas New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 19): P...

May 3, 2019

End of Life Care, Organ Transplant & Donation

Is it Time for the DNE: Do Not ECMO

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In the last few years, the hospital where I serve on the ethics committee has seen a dramatic up...

May 1, 2019

Animal Ethics, Clinical Trials & Studies, End of Life Care, Organ Transplant & Donation, Research Ethics, Science

When Pigs Fly

by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. Researchers at Yale University recently reported an experiment in which they used an experimenta...

April 22, 2019

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