Organ Transplantation: Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects - Expanding the European Platform

Contents

1. Introduction

Borders in Transplantation

Volcanic Ash, Skype and the ELPAT Congress 2010*

Expanding Living Organ Donation in Europe and the New EU Member States

The Role of the Council of Europe and the European Union with Respect to Cross-border Aspects of Organ Transplantation

Self-imposed Boundaries: Institutional Constraints on Organ Procurement

2. Organ Tourism and Paid Donation

Organ Trafficking – An Ethnographic Study on the Selling of Organs in Moldova and Israel

The Organ Shortage in the Balkans! Pakistan – The New Hope on the Horizon

Solving the Kidney Transplant Crisis for Minority Ethnic Groups in the UK: Is being Transplanted Overseas the Answer?

The Paradox of Organ Trafficking Prohibition: How to Control the Potential Adverse Effects of the Declaration of Istanbul

A Regulated System of Incentives for Living Donation: Let’s Move on to the Next Phase

3. Diverse Populations

Organ Donation and Transplantation through the Lens of Muslim Scholars

Explaining Low Rates of Organ Donation among Minority Ethnic Groups: A Holistic Approach

Ethnicity and Access to Kidney Transplant Programs: A Retrospective Study

Gift-exchange Theory, Organ Donation and Religion: What is the Connection?

Is ‘Gifting’ a Relevant Concept to Promote Organ Donation? The Views of UK’s Religious Leaders – 2009/2010

Moral Obligation of the United States Federal Government in Providing for Post-renal Transplantation Immunosuppression

Cultural Barriers for Setting up a Kidney Trans-plantation Program in the Indigenous Popula-tion of Chiapas, Mexico

4. Legal and Ethical Boundaries for Organ Transplantation

Pseudo-noncommercialism: The Trojan Horse of the Organ Market

The Exclusion of Organ Transplantation from the Cross Border Care Directive: Boundary or Opportunity?

Respect for the Individual: A Human Right in post-mortem use of the Body for Transplantation

With a Limited Number of Kidneys, who should be Placed on the Waiting List?

To what Extent should the Concept of „Equity in Organ Allocation“ be Defined?*

Directed and Conditional Donation: Reflections on Principles and Practice

Legal Aspects of Donation after Cardiac Death in the United Kingdom

Initial Experience with Transplantation of Lungs Recovered from Donors after Euthanasia

Philosophical Considerations on Active Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting Practices

Media Analysis of Romanian Debates on Presumed Consent – Ethical and Legal Aspects

Risks for Living Kidney Donors: A Comparison with Volunteer Participation in Clinical Trials

Just because we can, should we? An Ethical Approach to Temporary Alternatives as a Bridge to Paediatric Transplant

5. Deceased Donation

Organ Donation as End-of-Life Care: Ante-Mortem Treatment of the Potential Organ Donor

Brain Based Criteria for Diagnosing Death: What does it Mean to Family Members Approached about Organ Donation?

The Role of Moral Counseling during Decision Making by Proxies of Potential Deceased Donors

Deceased Organ Donation, Culture and the Objectivity of Death

Children as Donors: Issues for Parents and Professionals

Seeking Normality: Life on the Kidney Transplant List

Influence of Demographical and Administrative Factors on the Deceased Organ Donor Rate in Latvia

Registration of Living Kidney Donors in the Dutch Deceased Donor Registry

Ethical Considerations on Face Donation

6. Psychological Care for Living Donors and Recipients

Three-part Modeling of the Decision to Accept a Live Donation: Certainty, Refusal, Questioning

Predictors of the Willingness to Consider Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Haemodialysis Patients

Evaluation of Effectiveness of Information for the Candidate to Kidney Donation

Evaluation of Patient Quality of Life after Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation: A Fifteen-Year Experience at a Single Center

Sleep Quality Description based on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in Renal Transplant Recipients

Psychosocial Characteristics Predictive of Post-operative Mental Health in Living-related Liver or Kidney Donors: A Systematic Literature Review

Issues in Adherence to Lifestyle and Medication Regimen after Solid Organ Transplantation

7. Samaritan / Unrelated Donation

Altruism: Reciprocity/Solidarity Approach

Altruistic Donation to Strangers: Donor Motivation and Interpersonal Values

One Donor, two Samaritan Transplantations: An Unrelated Donor should be Allowed to Donate Twice

The Feasibility of Altruistic Kidney Donation in Combination with Domino-Paired Donation

The Promotion of Living Kidney Donation: Lessons for and from the United States

Allocation of Non-Directed Living-Donor Organs

Review of Ethical Guidelines for the Evaluation of Living Organ Donors

A Retrospective Analysis of Living Kidney Donation at a Quebec Transplant Centre: A Rationale for Exchange Programs

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