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(RE9253) AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS Committee on Bioethics
Adopted by the 37th World Medical Assembly Brussels, Belgium, October 1985
Adopted by the 39th World Medical Assembly Madrid, Spain, October 1987
Adopted by the 41st World Medical Assembly Hong Kong, September 1989
Adopted by the 46th WMA General Assembly Stockholm, Sweden, September 1994
May 30, 1998
I Kennedy, RA Sells, et al.
The Lancet, Vol 351;
No. 9116:1650-1652.
Is there a moral case for changing the law regulating organ donation from a system of "contracting in" to "contracting out" or "presumed consent" in those countries that have not yet done so? More>> [UCB only]
May, 1998
by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Director, Center for
Bioethics University of Minnesota
Demand is growing for donated human eggs -- for use by women who for some medical reason cannot conceive using their own eggs, or who are known to be at risk of passing on a serious genetic disease, and most recently by women of advanced age, even into the post-menopausal years. More>>
July, 1998
by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Director, Center for
Bioethics University of Minnesota
Organ transplantation is in the news again, most recently because of a young boy who received his third set of multiple internal organs, reviving an ongoing debate about how many organs any single person ought to receive. This case, and many others, is compelling because of the critical shortage of available organs relative to the number of patients who need them. More>>
January, 1999
by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Director, Center for
Bioethics University of Minnesota
The ongoing story of Renada Daniel-Patterson's need for a kidney transplant, and her father's offer to donate his only kidney raises questions about the limits of altruism, the risks people will take to benefit their loved ones, and the role medicine should play in establishing those limits. More>>
May 3, 1999
Web posted [CNN.com] at: 2:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT)
by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Director, Center for Bioethics University of
Minnesota
In a first-of-its-kind pilot program in Pennsylvania, organ
donors may get $300 from the state toward their funeral expenses. Proposals to
pay for organs are not new, but federal law prohibits the sale or trade of
organs. Do incentives such as funeral credits violate at least the spirit of the
ban on organ sales? Will they provide reasonable incentives to motivate families
who need an enticement, or exploit the families of patients who wouldn't donate
organs except that they need the money? Do incentive schemes merely reflect the
dire shortage of lifesaving organs? Or do they turn what should be altruistic
donations into cheap transactions for body parts? More>>
by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H
Director, Center for
Bioethics University of Minnesota
New rules governing organ transplants will take effect this month to remedy the wide geographic differences in how long sick patients wait for a kidney or heart transplant. But whatever the reasons why the wait is longer some places than others, the fact that there is any wait at all is due to an extreme shortage in the organs themselves. As the number of people waiting for organs increases, the waiting time grows longer and the number who will die waiting grows as well. Efforts to increase the supply have focused on increasing cadaver organs, with limited success. More>>
BOSTON - It would be nice to think of this as a simple problem of supply and demand. A test case for Economics 101. A problem for the marketplace. Over here we have 66,000 potential customers on a waiting list. Over there we have 5,500 products. How do you satisfy all these customers? Where's the supply to meet the demand? But we aren't talking about a shortage of "Star Wars" tickets or Beanie Babies. We are talking about a shortage of human organs. We are talking about people who die waiting for a liver or a heart or a lung. We are talking about thousands who might have left behind a legacy of life. More>>
BOSTON - At least it isn't China. In that benighted country, prisoners are subject to both the worst of the old totalitarian ways and the crudest of capitalism. On the one hand, you can still get executed in China for your political beliefs. On the other hand, you can then have your organs sold in the marketplace to the highest bidders. In China, prison authorities actually prep pre-executed bodies to save the parts and doctors stand by to reap the remains. It's even reported that prisoners with prime organs and ready customers get bumped to the front of the execution line. More>>
Written by David Price and Austen Garwood-Gowers.
(as of March 1997) This listing, which does not purport to be comprehensive, was largely initiated by Ms Abeer Khoury de Bellet (Amman/Geneva), Intern, Office of the Executive Administrator for Health Policy in Development, WHO (November 1995 - January 1996).
For years, India has been known as a "warehouse for kidneys" or a "great organ bazaar" and has become one of the largest centers for kidney transplants in the world, offering low costs and almost immediate availability.
ABA member attorneys are trusted advisors to their clients. Through organ/tissue donation, attorneys can help clients bequeath the gift of life. Probate and estate planning lawyers, in particular, should consider making organ/tissue donation a routine topic for discussion with their clients.
Washington, D.C. - Rep. Karen Thurman joined her Republican and Democratic colleagues in the House today (July 26) in support of the Organ Donor Leave Act to encourage organ donation...