Guest Editorial: Children as Organ Donors: A Persistent Ethical Issue

When I started doing clinical ethics rounds, in the mid 1980s, I decided to venture onto the pediatrics ward. The first patient I encountered was a 3-year-old girl returning to her room, groggy from general anesthesia. When I inquired about her, the nurse explained that she had just gone through the...

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Main Author: Sheldon, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2004
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 119-122
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Summary:When I started doing clinical ethics rounds, in the mid 1980s, I decided to venture onto the pediatrics ward. The first patient I encountered was a 3-year-old girl returning to her room, groggy from general anesthesia. When I inquired about her, the nurse explained that she had just gone through the procedure to donate bone marrow for her 1-year-old sister, who was preparing to undergo bone marrow transplantation for leukemia.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180104132027