Organ Donation in UK Law
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Don't Go Taking My Heart: A New Model for Organ Donation Law and Consent
In light of continued disparity between registered organ donors and patients in need of a transplant, this article seeks to evaluate purported solutions as enacted by the UK and other governments, ...
- A Reform Proposal for the Human Tissue Act (2004): Making it more ?appropriate' for Organ Donation in 2020
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The Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013: an Act of Encouragement, not Enforcement
The Human Transplantation (Wales) Act became law in Wales in September 2013. The Act aims to increase deceased donor organ and tissue donation in Wales by introducing a ‘soft opt‐out’ system to rep...... ... The Act aims to increase deceased donor organ and tissue donation in Wales by introducing a ‘soft opt-out’ system to ... ...
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Book Review: Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation by Seán Columb
... ... At the same time, an illicit market in organ donation also flourishes,with an estimated five to ten percent of all organ transplants worldwide being illegal com-mercial procedures (3). This underworld ... ...
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Book Review: Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation by Seán Columb
... ... At the same time, an illicit market in organ donation also flourishes,with an estimated five to ten percent of all organ transplants worldwide being illegal com-mercial procedures (3). This underworld ... ...
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Creating A Legal Market In Kidneys [...]
... ... The critical disparity between supply and demand in organ transplantation and its ramified loss of life has been documented ... 1 Alireza Bagheri, ‘Compensated Kidney Donation: An Ethical Review of the Iranian Model’ (2006) 16(3) Kennedy Institute ... ...
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Professional socialization and international norms: Physicians against organ trafficking
The concept of state socialization has been fundamental to the analysis of international norm dynamics. I argue that the establishment and spread of international norms may require the socializatio...... ... concern at the trade for profit in human organs; in 1991, the organization issued guiding principles on transplantation that require organ donation to be altruistic and prohibit the sale or purchase of organs. 1 Y et, many of the organ-exporting and organ-importing countries failed to enact ... ...
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Law Reform Proposal: Personalized Declaration of Death
As medical sophistication has progressed, a growing portion of the population has, perhaps ironically, begun to question whether they would wish to be subject to some techniques of preserving life ...... ... themselves but also of the patient; and whether the patient is an organ donor. The potentially opposing nature of these differing views of death ... in conjunction with the coming “opt-out” system of organ donation, 6 however, it will be an active decision to be made purposefully by those ... ...
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Why Nudges Matter: A Reply to Goodwin
This article argues that, contrary to Goodwin's recent arguments, nudges are compatible with the coalition government's stated aspiration to further self-empowerment. This is because, despite its l...... ... Consider health care and the dif- ficult subject of organ donation. The change from opt-in to opt-out systems has long been ... ...
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