Organ transplant initiatives: the twilight zone.
Assessments of the acceptability of new transplantation practices require a pinpointing of not only the meaning of death, but also the timing of death. They typically perceive elective ventilation as occurring just prior to death and non-heart-beating donor protocols as operative just after death. However, such practices in fact highlight the general vagueness and ambiguity surrounding these issues in both law and ethics. Supply-side dilemmas in transplantation lend real urgency to this "life or death" debate.
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School of Law, De Montfort University, Leicester.
D001926:Brain Death / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D001927:Brain Diseases; D004739:England; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D035502:Trust; D028761:Withholding Treatment