Courtney S. Campbell, Harvesting the Living? Separating Brain Death and Organ Transplantation.

• Author: Campbell, Courtney S.
• Position: Abstracts

Courtney S. Campbell, Harvesting the Living? Separating Brain Death and Organ Transplantation, 14 KENNEDY INST. ETHICS J. 301 (2004).

The chronic shortage of transplantable organs has reached critical proportions. In the wake of this crisis, some bioethicists have argued that there is sufficient public support to expand organ recovery through use of neocortical criteria of death or even pre-mortem organ retrieval. The author presents a typology of ways in which data gathered from the public can be misread or selectively used by bioethicists in service of an ideological or policy agenda, resulting in bad policy and bad ethics. Such risks should lead us to...