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Non-Heart-Beating Cadaver Procurement and the Work of Ethics Committees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Bethany Spielman  and
Steve Verhulst
Bethany Spielman
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Medical Jurisprudence at Southern Illinois University Schools of Medicine and Law.
Steve Verhulst
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor in the Division of Statistics and Research Consultants, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
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Extract

Recent ethics literature suggests that issues involved in non-heart-beating (NHB) organ procurement are both highly charged and rather urgent. Some fear that NHB is a public relations disaster waiting to happen or that it will create a backlash against organ donation. The purpose of the study described below was to assess ethics committees' current level of involvement in and readiness for addressing the difficult issues that NHB organ retrieval raises—either proactively through policy development or concurrently through ethics consultation.

Type
Special Section: Healthcare Ethics Committees and Consultants: The State of the Art
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , Summer 1997 , pp. 282 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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