BMA wants presumed consent for organ donors

Presumed consent to organ donation: a reevaluation.

Presumed consent, autonomy, and organ donation.

I argue that a policy of presumed consent for cadaveric organ procurement, which assumes that people do want to donate their organs for transplantation after their death, would be a moral improvement over the current American system, which assumes that people do not want to donate their organs. I address what I take to be the most important objection to presumed consent. The objection is that i...

Time to move to presumed consent for organ donation.

Presumed Consent for Organ Donation: Principlism Opts Out

The number of available organs for transplant each year falls woefully short of the number of patients in need of donated organs in the United States. While approval numbers are very high for organ donation, the number of registered donors is much smaller. A commonly proposed solution to increase the pool of organ donors is to replace the current explicit consent policy with a presumed consent ...

After presumed consent: a review of organ donation in Singapore.

This paper asks whether the Philippines should focus onways of dealing with end-stage renal disease by getting moretransplantable kidneys from the dead. Would it be more ethicalto put the burden to donate on the dead (who have already losttheir chance to consent) than on the living (who can consent)?Given the risks involved in undergoing nephrectomy and the lackof benefi...