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Past abuses and some myths have kept many people of color from agreeing to organ donation, transplant experts say. Here’s what you should know. A Latino dad said he would never agree to donate ...
Most people know that organ donations save lives and, in fact, more than 90 percent of Americans support organ donation. But only about 50 percent of U.S. adults are actually registered organ and ...
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Catholics believe that organ donation is a moral act when carried out with the consent of the donor. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that: [9]. Organ transplants are in conformity with the moral law if the physical and psychological dangers and risks to the donor are proportionate to the good sought for the recipient.
Organ harvesting from live people is one of the most frequently discussed debate topic in organ transplantation. The World Health Organization argues that transplantation promote health, but the notion of “transplantation tourism” has the potential to violate human rights or exploit the poor, to have unintended health consequences, and to provide unequal access to services, all of which ...
Body donation, anatomical donation, or body bequest is the donation of a whole body after death for research and education. There is usually no cost to donate a body to science; donation programs will often provide a stipend and/or cover the cost of cremation or burial once a donated cadaver has served its purpose and is returned to the family ...
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Prisons typically do not allow inmates to donate organs as living donors to anyone but immediate family members. There is no law against prisoner organ donation; however, the transplant community has discouraged use of prisoner's organs since the early 1990s due to concern over prisons' high-risk environment for infectious diseases. [1]