"An ignoble form of cannibalism": reflections on the Pittsburgh protocol for procuring organs from non-heart-beating cadavers.
The author discusses the ways in which she finds the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center protocol for procuring organs from "non-heart-beating cadaver donors" medically and morally questionable and irreverent. She also identifies some of the factors that contributed to the composition of this troubling protocol, and to its institutional approval.
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Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
D002102:Cadaver; D003643:Death; D032981:Dehumanization; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000592:standards; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000592:standards*; D009014:Morals; D010414:Pennsylvania; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States; D028761:Withholding Treatment