What's love got to do with it? The altruistic giving of organs

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-170

  Spike, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; DONOR; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPLANTATION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ALTRUISM; COMPREHENSION; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; DISCLOSURE; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; ETHICS CONSULTATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0031155957     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Ronald and Beverly gave their permission to use their story. Their names have been changed.
2. A. Spital, "The Ethics of Unconventional Living Organ Donation," Clinical Transplantation 5 (1991): 322-26.
3. R.G. Simmons, S.K. Marine, and R.L. Simmons, Gift of Life: The Effect of Organ Transplantation on Individual, Family, and Societal Dynamics (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1987), chapters 8 and 10.
4. R.H. Frank, Passions within Reason (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), chapter 10.