Ethics of Transplantation

• Ethics in transplantation E-Book
• On patients who purchase organs abroad
• Estimating the risks of acquiring a kidney abroad: A meta-analysis of complications following participation in transplant tourism.
• Commercialization of kidney transplants: A systematic review of outcomes in recipients and donors.
• Interviews With Patients Who Traveled From Macedonia/Kosovo, The Netherlands, and Sweden for Paid Kidney Transplantations.
• Reporting organ trafficking networks: a survey-based plea to breach the secrecy oath.
• The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' Opinions on Confidentiality of Patient Information
• Trafficking in human beings for the purpose of organ removal: stimulating and enhancing partnerships between transplant professionals and law enforcement.
• Trafficking in human beings for the purpose of organ removal and the ethical and legal obligations of healthcare providers.
• Organ trafficking and transplant tourism: the role of global professional ethical standards—the 2008 Declaration of Istanbul.
• Policy statement of Canadian society of transplantation and Canadian Society of Nephrology on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism.
• Indicators to Identify Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpose of Organ Removal.
• Childress, J. F. (2014). "Difficulties of Determining Death: What Should We Do About the 'Dead Donor Rule'?"
• International perspective on the diagnosis of death
• Philosophical Debates About the Definition of Death: Who Cares?
• The Brain and Somatic Integration: Insights Into the Standard Biological Rationale for Equating ``Brain Death'' With Death
• The Dead-Donor Rule and the Future of Organ Donation
• Increasing Donation Opportunities for Vascularized Composite Allografts
• A Lifesaving View of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
• Hand Transplantation Versus Hand Prosthetics: Pros and Cons.
• Gender-Mismatch in VCA/Organ Transplant
• Looking the World in the Face
• Womb transplants with live births: an update and the future
• A Preliminary Report of Penile Transplantation
• 3D bioprinting of tissues and organs.
• Bioprinting of a functional vascularized mouse thyroid gland construct
• AMA Journal of Ethics® Illuminating the art of medicine
• The Ethics of Organ Transplantation: A Brief History
• The Consequences of Vagueness in Consent to Organ Donation
• Donation after circulatory determination of death: What information to whom?
• Ethical guidelines for the evaluation of living organ donors
• The ELPAT living organ donor Psychosocial Assessment Tool (EPAT): from ‘what’ to ‘how’ of psychosocial screening – a pilot study
• Nephrologists' Perspectives on Recipient Eligibility and Access to Living Kidney Donor Transplantation.
• Between Scylla and Charybdis: charting an ethical course for research into financial incentives for living kidney donation.
• Living and Deceased Organ Donation Should Be Financially Neutral Acts
• Living-Donor Kidney Transplantation: Reducing Financial Barriers to Live Kidney Donation--Recommendations from a Consensus Conference.
• Death and organ donation: meeting the needs of multiethnic and multifaith populations.
• Achieving equality in organ donation and transplantation in the UK: challenges and solutions
• Attitudes to deceased organ donation and registration as a donor among minority ethnic groups in North America and the UK: a synthesis of quantitative and qualitative research
• Print Me an Organ? Ethical and Regulatory Issues Emerging from 3D Bioprinting in Medicine.
• 3D bioprint me: a socioethical view of bioprinting human organs and tissues.
• Challenges to research and innovation to optimize deceased donor organ quality and quantity.
• Deceased Donor Intervention Research: A Survey of Transplant Surgeons, Organ Procurement Professionals, and Institutional Review Board Members.

Foundation of Transplantation Ethics (James F. Childress)

• Principles
• Principles 2
• Living organ donation
• Organ allocation

Death determination and the dead donor rule (DAVID RODRIGUEZ-ARIAS)

• Organ donation in the history of death determination
• Death determination in brain-dead donors
• Death determination in circulatory-dead donors
• End-of-life, organ procurement, and the Dead Donor Rule

Informed consent to donation after death (DAVID SHAW)

• Informed consent to donation after death 1/3
• Informed consent to donation after death 2/3
• Informed consent to donation after death 3/3

Ethical considerations in allocation of deceased donor organs (UNDINE SAMUEL)

• Ethical principles in organ allocation
• Background of Eurotransplant
• General introduction into allocation strategies
• Waiting list
• Development of deceased donors
• Guiding principles in allocation
• Overview of transplantations

Living donor psychosocial assessment and selection (FABIENNE DOBBELS)

• Why should you perform psychosocial screening in living donor candidates?
• What should you screen for?
• How to perform this in clinical practice: the EPAT Tool?

Ethical aspects of research in deceased donation (Rutger J Ploeg)

• Ethical aspects of research in deceased donation

Inequities in access to living donor kidney transplantation (Allison Tong)

• Introduction
• Barriers and disparities in LKD
• Patient, donor and clinician perspectives
• Improving access: Removing financial disincentives, education, transplant liaison or navigator

Paying for Organs (Willem Weimar)

• Why we need more donor kidneys
• Ethical issues and justification of living kidney donation
• The economics of kidney transplantation
• Paid kidney donation

The rights and duties of transplant professionals in organ trade (Frederike Ambagtsheer)

• The difference between organ trade and organ trafficking
• Transplant professionals and organ trade
• When does a kidney transplant abroad become illegal?
• Pre- and post transplant recommendations
• Take home messages and further reading

Religious codes of ethics and organ donation and transplantation (Gurch Randhawa)

• Introduction
• Diverse populations and impact upon demand for organs
• Diverse populations – organ donor/recipient disparity
• Engagement of Faith Communities
• Organ donation in multi-ethnic and multi-faith communities – the potential way forward?

Ethical analysis of contraindications for transplantation (Greg Moorlock)

• Why is this important and what are ethically contentious contraindications?
• How can we make good use of available organs?
• Should alcoholics receive liver grafts?
• Should obese patients receive transplants?
• The ethics of using lower quality organs

Ethical Considerations in New and Emerging Forms of Transplantation (Katrina Bramstedt)

• Ethical dilemmas in VCA - Part 1
• Ethical dilemmas in VCA - Part 2
• 3D bioprinting of organs
• How to analyze & solve ethical dilemmas
• Conclusions