Oxford Handbooks Online : The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics

The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics Steinbock, Bonnie University at Albany, State University of New York Print publication date: 2009 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-956241-1 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
9 Organ Transplantation doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199562411.003.0010 Ronald Munson Abstract: A Success—Within Limits – A Shortage – Living-Donor Transplants – Benefits to Recipients, Risks to Donors – Should Living Donors Be Allowed? – Autonomy as the Basis – Inherent Coercion – Heroic Donors – Strangers as Donors – Paying Living Donors – Protecting the Donor: Promises Unkept – Donors of Last Resort – Summary: Rules Regulating Living Donors – Conclusion
Ronald Munson is Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Medicine at the University of Missouri—St Louis. He has served as a bioethicist for the National Cancer Institute, the National Eye Institute, and the Veterans Administration, and is a member of the Human Studies Committee at Washington University School of Medicine. His books include Reasoning in Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), Outcome Uncertain: Cases and Contexts in Bioethics (Wadsworth, 2003), and Raising the Dead: Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society (Oxford University Press, 2002). He is also the author of the novels Nothing Human, Fan Mail, and Night Vision.	Ronald Munson Find in OUP journals External web page