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Article: Finding the winning combination: how blending organ procurement systems used internationally can reduce the organ shortage.
- Article from:
- Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
- Author:
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ABSTRACT
The shortage in transplantable organs worldwide not only leads to unnecessary death, but also to grave human rights abuses through illegal methods of procuring organs. The shortage leads some desperate to find an organ through any possible means, including purchasing an organ on the black market. The system for procuring organs in the United States is based on altruism, where potential donors have to opt in to the system in order for their organs to be donated. This creates issues at the time of death for medical professionals or the next of kin to decide whether their patient or loved one had decided to donate. This Note explores organ procurement ...