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- Title
Assessing the Ethical and Practical Wisdom of Surrogate Consent for Living Organ Donation.
- Authors
Wendler, David; Emanuel, Ezekiel
- Abstract
Focuses on assessing the ethical and practical wisdom of surrogate consent for living organ donation. Risks to individual patients; Difficulties with substituted judgment decisions; Difficulties with best interests decisions; Threats to public trust in organ procurement; Benefits of surrogate consent for living organ donation; Safeguards for surrogate consent for living organ donation.
- Subjects
TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; ORGAN donation; ORGAN donors; MEDICAL ethics; PATIENTS
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2004, Vol 291, Issue 6, p732
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.291.6.732