Altruism has long been taken to be the guiding principle of ethical organ donation in the UK,
and has been used as justification for rejecting or allowing certain types of donation. We …

This paper addresses ethical, legal, and psychosocial aspects of Global Kidney Exchange
(GKE). Concerns have been raised that GKE violates the nonpayment principle, exploits …

Live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the optimal treatment modality for end stage
renal disease (ESRD), enhancing patient and graft survival. Pre-emptive LDKT, prior to …

In this article we explore some of the ethical dimensions of using social media to increase
the number of living kidney donors. Social media provides a platform for changing non …

Refusing consent to organ donation remains unacceptably high, and improving consent
rates from family or next‐of‐kin is an important step to procuring more organs for solid organ …

Clinical teams understandably wish to minimise risks to living kidney donors undergoing
surgery, but are often faced with uncertainty about the extent of risk, or donors who wish to …

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to permit members of the public opportunity to
record more nuanced wishes in relation to organ donation. Recent developments in organ …

Bioethics is a somewhat odd discipline, spawned from medical practice and science,
theology, law and philosophy, now increasingly embracing the methods of the social …

Abstract The British Transplantation Society (BTS)'Guideline on transplantation from
deceased donors after circulatory death'has recently been updated and this manuscript …

This paper explores the specific criticism of directed altruistic living organ donation that it
creates a 'beauty contest'between potential recipients of organs. The notion of the beauty …