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Organ Conscription and Greater Needs.

Alexander Zambrano
Published in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees (2023)
Since its inception, the institution of postmortem organ transplantation has faced the problem of organ shortage: Every year, the demand for donor organs vastly exceeds supply, resulting in the deaths of approximately 8,000 individuals in the United States alone. 1 This is in large part due to the fact that the United States, for the most part, operates under an "opt-in" policy in which people are given the opportunity to voluntarily opt-in to organ donation by registering as organ donors. 2 In the United States, a person's organs will not be removed for transplantation purposes unless she has registered as a donor or her family gives their consent for organ removal. 3 Jointly, these policies generate a situation where we do not retrieve as many organs as we could.
Keyphrases
  • public health
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • cell therapy
  • mesenchymal stem cells