Empirical research pertaining to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), clinician behaviors related to do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders and substituted judgment suggests potential contributions to medical ethics. Research quantifying ...

This report will discuss the complex clinical, ethical, cultural, psychological, and public policy implications of using NHBCDs [non-heart-beating cadaver donors]. The genesis of this report was a conference designed to ...

The dead donor rule -- that persons must be dead before their organs are taken -- is a central part of the moral framework underlying organ procurement. Efforts to increase the pool of transplantable organs have been forced ...

...This volume is devoted to the ethical, psychosocial, and public policy implications of procuring organs from non-heart-beating cadaver donors [NHBCDs] after a discussion to forgo life-sustaining treatment. The genesis ...