Organ Donation

Until recently ethical aspects of organ donation and transplantation have been another focus of interest for me. In 2008 I published a report: Farewell to Non-commitment: decision systems for organ donation from an ethical viewpoint. 

Since then I have developed several chapters of this report into separate papers:

*Trading with the Waiting-List: the Justice of Living Donor List Exchange. Bioethics 24 (2010): 190-198.

*Priority to registered donors on the waiting list for postmortal organs? A critical look at the objections. Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (2011): 149-152.

*Tacitly consenting to donate one’s organs. Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (2011), 344-347

*Can Consent be Presumed? Journal of Applied Philosophy 28  (2011), 295-307. 

*In the best interests of the deceased: A possible justification for organ removal without consent? Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 32 (2011): 259-69. Published online 19 May 2011.

*The role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 15 (2012): 195-205.

*Is Consent of the Donor Enough to Justify the Removal of Living Organs? Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 22: 1 (jan. 2013), 45-54.

*The Political Obligation to Donate Organs. Ratio Juris. 26 (2013), 378-403.

See also:

*Review of: T.M. Wilkinson, Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs; Janet Radcliffe Richards, The Ethics of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives. Medical Law Review 21 (2013), 647-657

*When are you dead enough to be a donor? Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 40 (2019), 299-319.

*Respect for autonomy in systems of postmortal organ procurement: a comment. Bioethics 33 (2019): 550-556  (On: R.M. Veatch, L.F Ross, Transplantation Ethics, sec. ed.)