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"An ignoble form of cannibalism": reflections on the Pittsburgh protocol for procuring organs from non-heart-beating
1Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
|May 8, 1993
Abstract:
The author discusses the ways in which she finds the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center protocol for procuring organs from "non-heart-beating cadaver donors" medically and morally questionable and irreverent. She also identifies some of the factors that contributed to the composition of this troubling protocol, and to its institutional approval.
