Estimated Association Between Organ Availability and Presumed Consent in Solid Organ Transplant
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Network Open
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2574-3805
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.12431