With this thesis, I argue that when selecting which patient should be the recipient of an organ
for transplant, a social value judgment about the patient should be included alongside …

Previous ethical analyses of organ allocation policies have addressed the trade-off between
giving organs to urgent versus non-urgent patients, overlooking the process by which …

With the demand for organ transplantation greatly outweighing the supply of donated
organs, two current ethical issues surround how to increase the number of available organs …

Background Deceased donor organs are scarce resources because of a large supply‐and‐
demand mismatch. This scarcity leads to an ethical dilemma, forcing priority‐setting of how …

The chronic shortage of transplant organs has long been recognised as a problematic area
for medicine and for medical ethics. The considerable attention it has attracted, not only from …

The transplant system has been criticized for not paying enough attention to efficiency in
distributing scarce organs. But little research has been done to see how the general public …

Background Solid organ transplantation is the treatment of choice for organ failure, but
donor organs are a scarce resource because of a large mismatch between supply and …

Background. Organs for transplantation are a scarce community resource but community
preferences and how they are incorporated into allocation policies are unclear. This …

Although organs are a public resource, community preferences are not explicitly
incorporated into organ allocation policies. Hence, this review aims to integrate various …

The assumption that procuring more organs will save more lives has inspired increasingly
forceful calls to increase organ procurement. This project, in contrast, directly questions the …