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Recommended Books & Edited Collections
Arthur L. Caplan; Daniel H. Coelho (eds) (1999). The Ethics of Organ Transplants: The Current Debate (London: Prometheus Books).

Renée C. Fox; Judith P. Swazey (1992). Spare parts: organ replacement in American society (New York: Oxford University Press).

Renee C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey (Dec 2000). The Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis, 2nd rev. edition (Somerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers).

Lee Gutkind (1988). Many Sleepless Nights: The World of Organ Transplantation (New York: Norton).

Linda Hogle (1999). Recovering the Nation's Body: Cultural Memory, Medicine and the Politics of
Redemption (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press).

Nora Machado (1998). Using the Bodies of the Dead: Legal, Ethical and Organizational Dimensions of Organ Transplantation (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate).

Deborah Mathieu (ed) (1988). Organ Substitution Technology: Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Issues (New York: Westview Press).

Marcel Mauss (1990). The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (New York:
Norton).

Cecilia M. Schmitz; Richard A. Gray (1993). The Gift of Life – Organ and Tissue Transplantation: An
Introduction to Issues and Information Sources (Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press).

Bethany Spielman (1996). Organ and Tissue Donation: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues (Carbondale, IL: Southern IL Univ. Press).

Paula T. Trzepacz; Andrea F. Dimartini (eds) (2000). The Transplant Patient: Biological, Psychiatric,
and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Stuart J. Youngner; Renée C. Fox; Laurence J. O'Connell (ed.) (1996). Organ transplantation:
Meanings and Realities. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press).

Medical Ethics: Frameworks for Decision Decision-Making


George J. Annas (1998). Some Choice: Law, Medicine, and the Market (New York: Oxford University
Press).

George J. Annas, Julia Annas (1993). Standard of Care: The Law of American Bioethics (New York:
Oxford University Press).

Tom L. Beauchamp; James F. Childress (1983). Principles of Biomedical Ethics (New York: Oxford
University Press).

Daniel Callahan (1987). Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (New York: Simon and
Schuster).

Daniel Callahan (1990). What kind of life: the limits of medical progress (New York: Simon and
Schuster).

Arthur L. Caplan (1992). If I were a rich man could I buy a pancreas? – and other essays on the ethics of health care (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).

James F. Childress (Mar 1 1996). “The gift of life: Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation,” Bulletin of
the American College of Surgeons. v. 81, no. 3: 8.

James F. Childress (1997). Practical Reasoning in Bioethics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).

E. Haavi Morreim (1991). Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine’s New Economics
(Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press).

A History of Health Policy Decision-Making
Daniel M. Fox (1993). Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Stanley Joel Reiser (1978). Medicine and the Reign of Technology (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge
University Press).

David J. Rothman (1991). Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making (New York: BasicBooks).

Shelia M. Rothman (1994). Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of
Illness in America (New York: BasicBooks).

Paul Starr (1982). The Social Transformation of American Medicine (New York: BasicBooks).

Special Reports and Hearings

Institute of Medicine (US) – Committee on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy (1999).
Organ Procurement and Transplantation: assessing current policies and the potential impact of the
DHHS final rule (Washington, DC: National Academy Press).

Institute of Medicine (US) – Division of Health Care Services (2000). Non heart-beating organ
transplantation: practice and protocols/Committee on Non-Heart-Beating Transplantation: The

Scientific and Ethical Basis for Practice and Protocols (Washington, DC: National Academy Press).
National Bioethics Advisory Committee (1999). Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research
(Rockville, MD: Department of Health and Human Services).

National Institutes of Health (2000). NIH Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (Rockville, MD: Department of Health and Human Services).

Bernice S. Reeves (1991). Organ Transplantation: Demand, Supply and Federal Policies (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service).

United States Task Force on Organ Transplantation (1986). Organ Transplantation: Issues and
Recommendations: Report of the Task Force on Organ Transplantation (Rockville, MD: US Dept. of
Health and Human Services).

United States Task Force on Organ Transplantation (1988). Organ Transplantation (Rockville, MD: US Dept. of Health and Human Services).

For Children & Teenagers
Laurie Beckelman (1990). Transplants (New York: Crestwood House).

Mary Kittredge (1989). Organ transplants (New York: Chelsea House).

By & For Organ Donors, Recipients, and Others
Lynn Chabot-Long & Leo Trevino; Paul Jenkins (ed) (1996). A Gift of Life: A Page From the Life of a
Living Organ Donor (Je Lynn Pubns).

Robert Finn & Reg Green; Linda Lamb (ed) (2000). Organ Transplants: Making the Most of Your Gift of Life (Patient-Centered Guides) (Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly & Associates).

Reg Green (1999). The Nicholas Effect (Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly & Associates).

Massachusetts General Hospital Organ Transplant Team, H. F. Pizer (1991). Organ Transplants : A
Patient's Guide (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).

Elizabeth Parr (1996). I'm Glad You're Not Dead: A Liver Transplant Story (Journey).

Mary Zimmeth Schomaker (1995). LifeLine – how one night changed five lives: a true story (New York: New Horizon Press).

Thomas E. Starzl (1992). The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press).

The Problems of Human Human-to to-Human Organ Transplantation: The Ethics of Donation
L. Cohen (Fall 1999). “Where it hurts: Indian material for an ethics of organ transplantation,”
Daedalus. v. 128, no. 4: 135-165.

BD Colen (Oct 1987). “Who Deserves Transplants?” Health. v. 19: 6+.

RA Crouch; C Elliott (Summer 1999). “Moral agency and the family: The case of living related organ
transplantation,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. V. 8, no. 3: 275-287.

D. Hull (Aug 1999). “The spiritual side of live organ and spousal donation,” Dialysis & Transplantation. v. 28, no. 8: 449+.

Anne Marie Moulin (1995). “The ethical crisis of organ transplants -- In search of cultural
‘compatibility’,” Diogenes (International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies). no. 172: 73-
92. John F. Kavanaugh (Apr 24 1999). “The gift of life at death,” America. v. 180 no. 14: 16.

PA Lesco (1991). “The Bodhisattva Ideal and Organ-Transplantation,” Journal of Religion & Health. v.
30, no. 1: 35-41.

Scott McCartney (1994). Defying the Gods: Inside the New Frontiers of Organ Transplants (New York: Lisa Drew Books/Scribner)

PT Menzel (Oct 1992). “The Moral Duty to Contribute and Its Implications for Organ Procurement
Policy,” Transplantation Proceedings. v. 24, no. 5: 2175-2178.

Mark Moran (June 18-25 1986). “Acting out faith through organ donation,” The Christian Century. v.
103: 572-3.

Lance Morrow (June 17 1991). “When one body can save another. Ayala family and other cases --
cover story,” Time. v. 137: 54-8.

MM Sellami (June 1993). “Islamic Position on Organ Donation and Transplantation,” Transplantation
Proceedings. v. 25, no. 3: 2307-2309.

FAM Shaheen (Feb 1999). “An exploratory study examining the influence of religion on attitudes
towards organ donation among the Asian population in Luton, UK,” Nephrology Dialysis
Transplantation. v. 14, no. 2: 521.

Laura A. Siminoff; CMS Sturm (Mar 2000). “African-American reluctance to donate: Beliefs and
attitudes about organ donation and implications for policy,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 10,
no. 1: 59-74.

Laura A. Siminoff; Kata Chillag (Nov/Dec 1999). “The fallacy of the ‘gift of life’,” The Hastings Center
Report. v. 29 no. 6: 34-41.

Bernard Teo (Oct 1992). “Organ Donation and Transplantation: A Christian Viewpoint,” Transplantation Proceedings. v. 24, no. 5: 2114-2115.

Bernard Teo (July/Aug 1993). “The Spare Parts Syndrome,” The Unesco Courier. v. 46: 31-2.

Robert M. Veatch (Aug 1998). “Egalitarian and maximin theories of justice: directed donation of
organs for transplant,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. v. 23 no. 5: 456-76.

Francisco Vilardell (June 1988). “Organ transplants: are they ethical?,” World Health. 20-21.

The Problems of Human Human-to to-Human Organ Transplantation: Resources, Supply & Allocation
Robert M. Arnold; Stuart J. Youngner (Dec 1993). “Do organ donors have to be dead?,” Harper’s. v.
287: 22+.

AH Barnett; Roger D. Blair; David L. Kaserman (Sept/Oct 1996). “A market for organs,” Society. v. 33: 8-17.

John Barry (June 26 1995). “Too good to check: rise in reports that children are being abducted for
their organs,” Newsweek. v. 125: 33.

Charles T. Carlstrom; Christy Rollow (Nov 1999). “Organ transplant shortages: a matter of life and
death (cover story),” USA Today (Periodical). v. 128 no. 2654: 50-2.

Edward S. Cornish (May/June 1987). “Spare Parts People: the future of transplants,” The Futurist. v.
21: 2+.

Jennfier Couzin (Aug 2 1999). “Waiting for a chance to live: proposals on transplants reform by
Institute of Medicine and D. Shalala,” U.S. News & World Report. v. 127 no. 5: 55.

Jeremiah Creedon (Sept/Oct 1993). “The transplant trade,” Utne Reader. 17-18.

Mark Dowie (Feb 1989). “Organ Masters,” Omni. v. 11: 26+.

Mark Dowie (Apr 1989). “Transplant Fever,” Mother Jones. v. 14: 19-20.

Linda C. Fentiman (Winter 1998-99). “Crisis in U.S. organ transplant system intensifies,” Issues in
Science and Technology. v. 15 no2: 30-1.

Robert D. Gibbons; David Meltzer; Naihua Duan (Jan 14 2000). “Waiting for organ transplantation,”
Science. v. 287 no5451: 237-8.

Christine Gorman (June 17 1991). “Matchmaker, find me a match -- cover story,” Time. v. 137: 60-1.

KP Jorns (Dec 16 1994). “Theological Theses on the Ethics of Organ Transplantation and on a Law
Concerning the Transplantation,“ Forensic Science International. v. 69, no. 3: 279-283.

Charles Krauthammer (May 17 1999). “Yes, let's pay for organs. Pennsylvania pays $300 for funeral
expenses of donors,” Time. v. 153 no. 19:100.

Brigid McMenamin (Nov. 1 1999). “The organ king: United Network for Organ Sharing,” Forbes. v. 164
no. 11: 164+.

JD Mahoney (Mar 2000). “The market for human tissue,” Virginia Law Review. 86, no. 2: 163-223.

Douglas K. Martin; Eric Meslin (Feb 1994). “The give and take of organ procurement,” The Journal of
Medicine and Philosophy. v. 19: 61-78.

Gilbert Meilaender (Oct 11 1999). “'Strip-mining' the dead,” National Review. v. 51 no19: 42-4.

Jerry Menikoff (Nov/Dec 1999). “Organ Swapping, “ The Hastings Center Report. v. 29 no. 6: 28-33.

Peter Monaghan (Oct 6 2000). “Scholarly Watchdogs for an Ethical Netherworld,” The Chronicle of
Higher Education. A23.

Louis J. Palmer (1999). Organ Transplants from Executed Prisoners: An Argument for the Creation of
Death Sentence Organ Sentence Organ Removal Statutes (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.).

Benjamin Radford (May/June 1999). “Bitter harvest: the organ-snatching urban legends,” Skeptical
Inquirer. v. 23 no. 3: 34-9+.

David J. Rothman (Nov/Dec 1997). “Body shop: harvesting organs from executed prisoners in China,”
The Sciences. v. 37:17-21.

Joseph P. Shapiro (Apr 24 2000). “Life in Limbo: The Transplant Wars,” US News & World Report. v.
128, no. 16: 26.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Oct 1998). “Truth and rumor on the organ trail,” Natural History. v. 107 no. 8: 48-57.

Joel L. Swerdlow; Fred H. Cate (Oct 1990). “Why transplants don't happen,” The Atlantic. v. 266: 99-
100+.

JG Turcotte (Oct 1992). “Supply, Demand and Ethics of Organ Procurement -- The Medical
Perspective,” Transplantation Proceedings. v. 24, no. 5: 2140-2142.

Michael L. Westmoreland-White (Nov/Dec 1999). “Life on the auction block: what's wrong with selling
organs on the open market?” Sojourners. v. 28 no. 6: 14.

New Frontiers
David Le Breton (1994). “Dissecting grafts: the anthropology of the medical uses of the human body,”
Diogenes (International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies). no. 167: 95-111.

BD Colen (Fall 1996). “Organ Concert: part of a special issue on the frontiers of medicine,” Time. v.
148 special issue: 70-1+.

RD Guttmann (Fall 1997). “Technology, clinical studies, and control in the field of organ
transplantation,” Journal of the History of Biology. v. 30, no. 3: 367-379.

Joseph Edward Murray (June 5 1992). “Human organ transplantation: background and
consequences,” Science. v. 256: 1411-16.

Animal Welfare Issues
Constance Holden (Oct 14 1988). “Academy explores use of laboratory animals. National Research
Council report,” Science. v. 242: 185.

Janelle Rohr (ed) (1989). Animal Rights: Opposing Viewpoints. (San Diego: Greenhaven Press).

Bernard E. Rollin (1992). Animal Rights & Human Morality (London: Prometheus Books).

Bernard E. Rollin (1995). The Frankenstein Syndrome: Ethical and Social Issues in the Genetic
Engineering of Animals (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Andrew N. Rowan (ed) (1988). Animals and People Sharing the World (Hanover, NH: University Press).

Andrew N. Rowan (1984). Of Mice, Models, and Men: A Critical Evaluation of Animal Research.
(Albany: SUNY Press).

Deborah Rudacille (2000). The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The War Between Animal Research and
Animal Protection (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux Publishing).

New Frontiers: Animal Animal-to to-Human Organ Transplantation
JS Allan (1996). “Xenotransplantation at a crossroads: prevention vs. progress,” Nature. v. 2: 18-21.
George J. Anna (Feb 1985). "Baby Fae: The 'Anything Goes' School of Human Experimentation,"
Hastings Center Report. v. 15, no. 1: 15-17.

Beth Baker (Oct 1996). “Experts ponder the ethics of xenotransplantation,” BioScience. v. 46: 643.
AL Caplan (1985). “Ethical issues raised by research involving xenografts, J Am Med Assoc. v. 254:
3339-43.

D. K. C. Cooper, E. Kemp, K Reemtsma, D. J. G. White (eds) (1991). Xenotransplantation: The
Transplantation of Organs and Tissues Between Species. (New York: Springer Verlag).

Mark J. Hanson; Lilly-Marlene Russow; Charles R. McCarthy (Nov/Dec 1999). “A xenotransplantation
protocol: case study with commentaries,” The Hastings Center Report. v. 29 no. 6: 22-5.

Jonathan Hugues (1998). “Xenografting: ethical issues,” Journal of Medical Ethics. v. 24: 18-24.

Charles R McCarthy. "Ethical Aspects of Animal-to-human Xenografts," Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources Journal. v. 37, no. 1: 3-9.

CR McCarthy (June 1996). “A New Look at Animal-to-Human Organ Transplantation,” Kennedy
Institute of Ethics Journal. v. 6, no. 2: 183-188.

Gilbert Meilaender (Apr 1996). “Second thoughts about body parts,” First Things. no. 62: 32-7.

Frederick A. Murphy (Aug 9 1996). “The public health risk of animal organ and tissue transplantation
into humans,” Science. v. 273: 746-7.

K. Reemtsma (1991). “Xenotransplantation—a brief history of clinical experiences: 1900–1965,” in D.

K. C. Cooper, E. Kemp, K Reemtsma, D. J. G. White (eds) (1991). Xenotransplantation: The
Transplantation of Organs and Tissues Between Species. (New York: Springer Verlag): 10-12.

Cory SerVaas (Sept/Oct 1998). “Dr. David White's goal: saving lives with pig organs --cover story;
interview,” The Saturday Evening Post. v. 270 no. 5: 40-3.

Peggy Slasman (Sept/Oct 1997). “Transplantation's next frontier: the promise of the pig,” The
Saturday Evening Post. v. 269: 44-5+.

Gretchen Vogel (Jan 30 1998). No moratorium on clinical trials: animal-to-human transplants,”
Science. v. 279: 648.

Clara J. Witt; François-Xavier Meslin (Jul/Aug 1998). “Animal-to-man transplants,” World Health. no. 4: 30.

“Xenotransplantation in the Light of Animal Ethics” (1999), in Biomedical Ethics: Newsletter of the
European Network for Biomedical Ethics. v. 4, no. 3.

“Xenotransplantation: International Issues Including the Use of Non-Human Cells, Tissues, and
Organs” (1998), in Jay Fishman, et al (ed) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Elettra Ronchi (1999). Xenotransplantation: International Policy Issues (New York: Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development).

New Frontiers: Embryonic Stem Cells & Fetal Tissue
CH Baron (Apr 1985). "Fetal Research: The Question in the States," Hastings Center Report. v. 15, no. 2: 12-16.

James F. Childress (June 1991). "Ethics, Public Policy, and Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation,"
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. v. 1, no. 2: 93-121.

Barbara J. Culliton (Dec 23 1988). “Panel backs fetal tissue research,” Science. v. 242: 1625-6.

Christine Gorman (Feb 1 1988). “A balancing act of life and death: questions raised by transplanting
of tissue from anencephalic newborns,” Time. v. 131: 49.

Stephen S. Hall (Jan 30 2000). “The recycled generation (cover story),” The New York Times Magazine: 30-5+.

Emmanuel D. Thorne (Nov/Dec 1988). “Regulating commerce in fetal tissue,” Society. v. 26: 61-3.

New Frontiers: Organ and Body Part Manufacture and Repair
Charles Krauthammer (Jan 19 1998). “Of headless mice . . . and men: prospect of human organ
farms,” Time. v. 151: 76.

David J. Mooney; Antonios G. Mikos (Apr 1999). “Growing New Organs: Researchers have taken the
first steps toward creating semisynthetic, living organs that can be used as human replacement
parts,” Scientific American.

Anne Novitt-Moreno (Dec 1996). “Medical miracles: are we reaching the bionic age? -- cover story,”
Current Health 2. v. 23: 6-12.

New Frontiers: What Constitutes Death
R. Herdman; TL Beauchamp; TJ Potts (Mar 1998). “The institute of medicine's report on non-heartbeating organ transplantation,” The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. v. 8, no. 1: 83-90.

“Islam and death. Egypt,” (August 1997). World Press Review. v. 44: 42.

M. Lock (Winter 1996). “Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and
Japan,” Daedalus. v. 125, no. 1: 207-244.

Suwanda H. J. Sugunasiri (July 1995). “The whole body, not heart, as 'seat of consciousness': the
Buddha's view,” Philosophy East & West. v. 45: 409-30.

Takeshi Umehara (Winter 1994). “Descartes, brain death and organ transplants: a Japanese view,”
New Perspectives Quarterly. v. 11: 25-9.

Sheryl WuDunn (May 11 1997). “In Japan, use of dead has the living uneasy. brain death organ
transplants,” New York Times (Late NY Edition). 1+ (Section 1).

Stuart J. Youngner; Robert M. Arnold; Michael A. DeVita (Nov/Dec 1999). “When is ‘dead’? The
Hastings Center Report. v. 29. no. 6: 14-21.

Stuart J. Youngner; Robert M. Arnold; Renie Schapiro (eds) (1999). Definition of Death: Contemporary Controversies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).

 



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