Hospital Ethics

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses a number of issues that have ethical ramifications that relate to health care. The describes each issue and then presents a list of questions and points for the ethics committee of a hospital to consider when deciding their position on these issues. Finally, the paper presents the arguments in favor and in opposition and explains the hospitals final position on each issue.

Table of Contents:
Part I - Issue 1: Abortion
Issue 2: Germline Experimentation
Issue 3: Randomized Clinical Research
Issue 4: Rationing Health Care
Issue 5: Organ Transplants
Part II - Ethics Committee Composition, Qualifications and Concerns
Guide Questions for Committee Deliberations
Part III - Positions on Issues

From the Paper:

"In favor - the need for organ transplants has long been felt and addressed. The United Network for Organ Sharing said that more than 80,000 people in the US have great need for these transplants in order to save their lives. Approximately 17 of them die while waiting for the transplants and not receiving them. Faulty organ procurement appeared to be the cause, which only badly needed evaluation. This was evidence also by an increase in the number of transplants performed in various years from donations from deceased persons. This number exceeded that of products from live donors."

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