title: Doing harm: living organ donors, clinical research and The Tenth Man.
abstract: This paper examines the ethical difficulties of organ donation from living donors and the problem of causing harm to patients or research subjects at their request. Graham Greene explored morally similar questions in his novella, The Tenth Man.
authors.affiliation: McGill University Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, Canada.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Elliott
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D026686:Beneficence; D003068:Coercion; D028661:Complicity; D003657:Decision Making; D004324:Drama; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D028681:Moral Obligations; D009014:Morals; D033281:Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D035842:Research Subjects; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement