Introduction: religious and cultural perspectives on organ transplantation
An ethical framework
Brain death: welcome definition or dangerous judgment?
The definition of death: problems for public policy
The whole-brain-oriented concept of death: an outmoded philosophical formulation
The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death
The conscience clause: how much individual choice can society tolerate in defining death?
Crafting a new definition of death law
Gift or salvage: the two models of organ procurement
The myth of presumed consent: ethical problems in new organ procurement strategies - Required response: an alternative to presumed consent
Live-donor transplant: including the permanently unconscious and paired- and live-donor/cadaver exchanges
Non-heart-beating cadaver donors
Report of the Anencephaly Task Force of the Washington Regional Transplant Consortium
The role of age in procurement: minors and the elderly as organ sources
Tainted organs: HIV-positive and other controversial donors
The ethics of xenografts
Who empowers medical doctors to make allocative decisions for dialysis and organ transplantation?
A general theory of allocation
Voluntary risks and allocation: does the alcoholic deserve a new liver?
Multiorgan, split-organ, and repeat transplantations
The role of age in allocation
The role of status: did Mickey mantle get special treatment?
Urgency versus geography: the controversy between UNOS and Donna Shalala
Directed donation of organs for transplant: egalitarian and maximin approaches.