Primates and anencephalics as sources for pediatric organ transplants: Medical, legal, and ethical issues

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 1, Issue 2-3, 1986, Pages 150-164

  Fletchera, John C ^a   Robertsonb, John A ^b   Harrisonc, Michael R ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anencephalic; Ethics; Legal issues; Primate; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANENCEPHALUS; CONGENITAL DISORDER; ETHICS; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEWBORN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ANIMAL ORGANS; BEGINNING OF LIFE; BODY PARTS AND FLUIDS; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COSTS AND BENEFITS; DETERMINATION OF DEATH; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; INFANTS; MORALITY; ORGAN DONATION; PARENTAL CONSENT; RISKS AND BENEFITS; SCARCITY; SELECTIVE ABORTION; THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

ANENCEPHALY; ANIMAL; BRAIN DEATH; CHILD; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORGAN PROCUREMENT; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; PERSONHOOD; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84939690145     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000262261     Document Type: Article

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