The Living Organ Donor as Patient: Theory and Practice

Using a five-principle framework, Ross and Thistlethwaite argue that living donor organ transplantation can be ethical provided that we treat living solid organ donors as patients in their own right. The Living Organ Donor as Patient (Oxford University Press) examines attempts to increase organ donation from living individuals and offer their perspective on what it would take to balance the scales of the now-scarce medical resource of transplants.