Organ Transplantation: A Proposal for Routine Salvaging of Cadaver Organs

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Abstract
NO medical advance in recent years has raised so much controversy as organ transplantation. Transplantation has given rise to unprecedented legal problems, often unrecognized and little discussed.1 One urgent problem that we shall discuss here is the creation of lifesaving resources (that is, cadaver kidneys and other organs for transplantation). By recognizing the claims of persons to cadaver organs, the law can either help or hinder the creation of an adequate supply of organs for transplantation. The law at present requires — to put it in a nutshell — that surgeons obtain consent of the next of kin before removing . . .

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