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Article: The shortage of organs for transplantation: exploring the alternatives.
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- Issues in Law & Medicine
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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For more than a decade, medical practitioners, students of medical policy, organ procurement personnel, and other health care professionals have lamented the shortage of cadaveric organs for transplantation. This concern about the supply of transpoantable organs has spawned a large number of professional articles pointing out the extent and consequences of the failure to current cadaveric organ procurement policies to produce an adequate supply of transplantable organs.(1) This growth of the academic and professional literature has been paralled by an explosion of artices in the public press documenting the shortage and describing the human suffering associated with it.(2) ...