This book describes the different uses of donors of organs after cardiac death around the world, based on different laws and logistical issues around the world.

Rates of organ donation lag far behind the increasing need. At the start of 2006, more than 90,000 people were waiting to receive a solid organ (kidney, liver,

This book challenges conventional medical ethics by exposing the inconsistency between the reality of end-of-life practices and established ethical justificatio

In 1997, the Institute of Medicine published a report entitled Non-Heart- Beating Organ Transplantation: Medical and Ethical Issues in Procurement. The findings

The organ donation and transplantation system strives to honor the gift of donated organs by fully using those organs to save and improve the quality of the liv