Current ethical issues in organ transplantation.

Ethics in a medical context have been defined by Professor Gordon Dunstan' as "the obligations of a moral nature which govern the practice of medicine". Ethics are expressed in the language of duties: the duty in general to serve and protect the interests of patients in ways consistent with the corporate ethics of the profession, and the moral values held in common with society. These duties, referred to as Hippocratic, must be worked out in particular cases by moral reasoning.