The Living Organ Donor as Patient
Ross, Lainie Friedman / Thistlethwaite, Jr., J. Richard![The Living Organ Donor as Patient](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/369/36935082/CHSBZCOP0336935082.jpg)
When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap. Today, we are no closer to the goal of adequate organ supply without living donors-if anything, the supply-demand ratio is worse. While most research on the ethics of organ transplantation focuses on how to allocate organs as a scarce medical resource, the ethical treatment of organ donors themselves has been ...