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The dead donor rule: a defense.

Samuel C M Birch¹

¹The University of Notre Dame Australia, 160 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales 2010, Australia. Samuel.Birch1@my.nd.edu.au

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

|July 17, 2013

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The dead donor rule in organ transplantation is ethically defensible. This paper argues the rule

Keywords:

allowing to die dead donor rule killing organ donation

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Medical Ethics
Transplantation Medicine

Background:

The dead donor rule mandates determination of death before organ procurement.
Recent arguments challenge the ethical basis of the dead donor rule.
This paper focuses on the ethical rationale of the dead donor rule.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the claim that the dead donor rule lacks a cogent ethical rationale.
To defend the moral significance of the distinction between killing and allowing to die in transplantation ethics.

Main Methods:

Philosophical analysis of ethical arguments.
Critique of contemporary bioethical perspectives on the dead donor rule.

Main Results:

The rejection of the dead donor rule's ethical rationale stems from a dismissal of the killing vs. allowing to die distinction.
The traditional distinction retains moral significance in medical ethics.

Conclusions:

The ethical rationale for the dead donor rule is defended.
Critiques of the dead donor rule based on the killing/allowing to die distinction are unsuccessful.
The norm that physicians should not kill their patients remains relevant in transplantation.