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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gemma Cox
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ottawa 2014-05-01
Series:University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine
Subjects:
Online Access:https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index.php/uojm-jmuo/article/view/1037