Organ transplantation depends on a display of public confidence. Health authorities have
the duty to protect public confidence against any action that would put in doubt the quality of …

Commerce in transplantation is well known, if not well defined. Although the word commerce
suggests an exchange of money, in reality it often simply signifies a non‐profit‐making …

In this paper I shall be arguing against the claim made by Erin and Harris (2003) and others,
that creating a “regulated market” in organs for transplantation taken from living vendors is …

Describes the response of WHO to some of the ethical and moral issues raised by organ
transplantation. The ever-increasing demand for transplantable human organs has been …

The commercialization of human organs for transplantation: t... : Current Opinion in Organ
Transplantation The commercialization of human organs for transplantation: the current status of …

The Declaration of Istanbul defines organ transplant commercialism as '… a policy or
practice in which an organ is treated as a commodity, including by being bought or sold or …

Ethics has become most important by the progresses of modern medicine, and ethical
questions are a part of the day-to-day life in big hospitals, particularly in transplant units …

Transplantation medicine, like no other medical specialty, is connected with a wide range of
very difficult ethical issues. Among those are: availability of the treatment, consent for …

Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) has had a long and continuing interest in
organ transplantation legislation since 1948 (the year WHO's Constitution came into force) …

Organ transplantation progresses so rapidly that it provides a paradigm for ethics and
problems of justice in the whole field of modern medicine.'Organ transplantation: ethical …