The donation and transplantation of kidneys: should the law be changed?

Journal of Medical Ethics 5 (1):13-21 (1979)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

It is now eighteen years on since the Human Tissue Act 1961, but this legislation is still unchanged in England, Scotland and Wales. Ian Kennedy, in this paper, lays before us the law as it is, the problems of its interpretation and his opinion of what government should be doing to help clarify the situation and remove some of the problems which exist daily for the doctors who face the dilemma of seeking consent for transplants at the moment of extreme grief for the surviving spouses or relatives of the patient who has been in his care only moments before. Ian Kennedy suggests that by doing nothing the Department of Health and the government are being both callous and less than honest

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 103,449

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-09-13

Downloads
55 (#409,745)

6 months
11 (#246,005)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Philosophy of medicine in the united kingdom.David Lamb & Susan M. Easton - 1982 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 3 (1):3-34.
Let's not opt out: kidney donation and transplantation.R. A. Sells - 1979 - Journal of Medical Ethics 5 (4):165-169.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Ethical aspects of donor consent in transplantation.John Mahoney - 1975 - Journal of Medical Ethics 1 (2):67-70.

Add more references