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Organ Donation, 2007.
A brief look at some of the ethical dilemmas associated with organ donation.
806 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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Organ donation is removing specific tissues of the human body for transplanting or grafting into another person. Both cadavers and living persons can be donors, but both also have to fulfill certain criterion in order to eligibly donate. This paper examines how bioethics, politics and personal issues have arisen in concern of organ donation.
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"There is a waiting list for legal organs to be donated but for indeterminate lengths of time. The fear of literally dying while still waiting to be a recipient has pushed people to deal with the black market. The "black market organ donation" relies upon the ends justifying the means. This is discussed in teleological and utilitarian issues. Concern also focused on the imbalance of the trade because the market is for only those who can afford, therefore only gives chance for the well-off. The black market has been referred to as the transplant trade outside of the United States. Legalization of the international organ trade would lead to increased supply, lowering prices. Therefore the poor might be able to afford such organs as well."
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Organ Donation, 2005.
A look at some of the ethical issues surrounding organ donation.
1,192 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper examines how organ transplantation is one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine and how it gives thousands of people another chance at life through the selflessness of others. It looks at how numerous studies have concluded that educating the population about organ donation is crucial to increase the number of donors and how, all in all, organ donation is absolutely ethical because it saves thousands of lives per year.
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"There are currently 83,554 patients waiting for an organ transplant ("U.S. Transplantation Data" 1). Each year in the United States approximately 200,000 people die under circumstances in which organ donation could have been an option but that option was not taken. Out of these potential donors, only 20% actually donate (Siminoff & Saunders-Sturm, 245). These lost opportunities are underscored by the following statistics: Every 30 minutes a new name is added to the transplant waiting list. An average of six people per day die awaiting organ transplants. One donor can help save the lives of as many as 25 transplant patients."
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Organ Donation, 2006.
A discussion regarding the issues surrounding organ donation.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper takes a look at the necessity of organ donation. The paper discusses the value of the gift that the organ donor gives to the donor recipient. The paper goes on to discuss the importance of college students signing up for organ donation.
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"While many people think that a person can only donate organs after they die, this is not true. In 2002, one-fourth of all transplants performed in the United States were with organs donated by a living person (Gift of Life Trust Fund, 2006). A person has the ability to donate one kidney and live a normal life with the remaining healthy kidney. Also, in some situations, a portion of a liver, lung or pancreas may be donated. Blood, bone and bone marrow may also be donated by a living person. Just one pint of blood can help save four individual lives."
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Organ Donation, 2002.
Addresses the ethical questions surrounding the practice of organ donation.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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The purpose of this essay will be to determine what ethical basis, if any, exists for the practice of organ donation. What is the ethical justification for these processes of consent? Part of the answer to this question lies in the manner in which we view the communities in which we live; a view which also entails a concept of justice and sense of moral obligation.
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Organ Donation, 2001.
Discusses organ donation popularity.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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The paper discusses why organ donation is not more popular and gives suggestions on solving the scarcity of donors by better use of education.
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"In America, we have the choice to donate organs and save other lives. In countries like China, that choice is not permitted. Traditional beliefs say the body must be kept whole after death. What results is a vast network of crime, where the organs of executed prisoners are harvested and transplanted into wealthy patients in operations that bring Chinese hospitals tens of millions of dollars a year. Executed prisoners are the only source for transplants, and the demand is so great that occasionally the organs are removed before the patient is dead."
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Organ Donation, 2003.
An overview of the practice of organ donation today.
1,389 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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Deciding to be an organ or tissue donor can potentially help several other people through life-saving transplants and tissue grafts. In the United States, organ transplants save about 63 people each day, but another 17 people on the waiting list die because not enough organs are available. This paper provides a review and discussion of the relevant literature, a personal assessment of the practice, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.
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"While many Americans report being in favor of organ donation, there are some powerful cultural and religious issues that affect organ donorship. For example, until 1982 organ donation after death was not permissible in Islamic nations. However, the highest religious authority on such matters in Saudi Arabia (and therefore throughout the Islamic world) changed this in 1982, but the tales and legends that are naturally inculcated in childhood continue, however, to influence public attitudes in most Islamic nations. For instance, the widely told story of how the Prophet's uncle Samzah was murdered by the heathen Hind, who then opened the murdered man's belly and chewed up his liver, has slowed public acceptance of liver transplantation. "
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Organ Donation, 2001.
How we can make the process of organ donation more effective.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 4 sources, $ 49.95
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This paper outlines the current method of allocating needed organs and also outlines the way that it should be changed to as agreed by doctors across the world to make the process more effective. The author cites numerous examples.
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"On November 8, 2000, seventeen-year-old Leah Therese Loeffler of Middletown, Maryland met her fate. She died from injuries sustained in a brutal car accident just the day before. Though her death was tragic and untimely, life sprang from the remains of her petite, damaged body. Leah?s uninjured organs were harvested and allocated to individuals in desperate need of a second chance. Her death is responsible for sustaining the lives of several individuals. Leah was their second chance, which makes it evident that the importance of one organ is so monumental that it should not matter whether the person lives across the country or right next door to the donor. Something must be done to decrease the amount of deaths related to poor allocation of one of the nations most valuable and most scarce resource: human organs. The issue at hand is the discrepancies in the organ allocation process by which a committee chooses what organs go where and to whom. The determining factor on who is next to receive an organ should be simply who needs it the most. The needs of critically ill patients should be taken into primary consideration when determining who gets a second chance."
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Organ Donation, 2002.
A discussion of the issues concerning organ donation and the negative effects of shortage of organs.
781 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper examines how the need for organs for transplantation and scientific study is constantly increasing. It also describes why it is important to explore the negative effects of the shortage of organs and how people can be persuaded to donate their organs after death. It looks at how although the percentage of potential organ donors is rising annually, new transplant procedures are widening the gap in supply and demand of organs. It evaluates how the shortage of organs can be decreased, however, if those willing to become organ donors discuss their wishes with their next of kin.
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"The process of organ donation mainly starts at the hospital when a potential organ donor is identified. The only patients considered for organ donation are those which are pronounced brain dead. Brain death is defined as ?the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem (unknown).? Brain death can occur from causes such as brain hemorrhage, asphyxiation, drowning or motor vehicle accidents, which were responsible for the deaths of 25 percent of organ donors during 1994 and 1995. In extremely rare cases, however, organs can be transplanted from donors known as non-heartbeating, in which death must be declared by traditional criteria concerning cardiac death (unknown)."
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Organ Donation, 2002.
The paper discusses the various arguments surrounding the issue of donating organs from brain damaged people and whether it is ethical to do so or not.
1,739 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 56.95
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The paper examines what constitutes brain death and the rare possibility that a brain dead patient may awaken from this vegetative state. The paper looks at the controversy surrounding the issue both from the side of the family as well as from the side of the hospital staff.
It also touches on the rates of organ donation in different countries as well as the ethical rules governing the transplantation process.
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"It is ethical to procure organs for donation and transplant from brain dead patients because the criteria is so stringent to declare someone brain dead that it cannot be construed as unethical(Donation, 2001). When a person is declared brain dead they have performed certain required criteria to make that determination. It is ethical to use the organs of a brain dead person because they are only alive by machines, they are not really alive. The use of these organs has the potential to save thousands of lives each year."
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Consent for Organ Donation, 2004.
A study looking at the effect race has on organ donor consent rates.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses the effect that race has on consent for organ donations. The paper looks at the problem of shortages of organ donors for transplants as well as the various approaches for increasing organ donations. The paper contends that no significant correlation exists between race of the requester and the potential donor and the number of organ donor consents.
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"The following research paper explores the effects of race on organ donation Specifically, the research objective is to determine if there is a relationship between organ donor consent rates and the matching of race requester to race of potential donor families. Pearson's correlation was used to demonstrate significant relationships. It was expected that there would be a significant relationship between the variables, however the study findings did not support the study hypothesis that there is a significant correlation between..."
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The Ethics of Organ Donation, 2003.
A study of the ethics of paying for organs for transplantation.
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper reviews the pros and cons of paying for organs for transplantation. The paper begins by exploring the lack of available organs and the circumstances that would drive someone to attempt to buy an organ. The paper then defines the current anonymous donation system as one based exclusively on altruism, and asks what the legal, medical and ethical concerns are of such a system. The paper then discusses the gap between supply and demand for organs. Finally, the paper offers a number of problems -- ethical and otherwise -- in offering financial incentive for organ donation.
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Organ Donation, 2005.
An overview of the international organ trade and discussion on why financial benefits for organ donors should be legal.
1,344 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper examines how the shortage of organs for patients in need of a transplant has created an organ black-market and how there is a desperate need to allow for financial compensation for organ donors in order to eliminate this black-market and to save lives. It discusses the problems of the organ trade that has developed world-wide, why compensation for organ donors should be legal, possible solutions to meet the demands, and what can be done to make it happen.
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"The current system for patients in need of organ transplants is failing to meet the demands that exist today. Patients are dying while on long waiting lists; therefore, they are searching for other alternatives to meet these demands. Also, spearheaded by then Senator Al Gore, The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 makes it illegal to sell human organs. Selling organs is a felony offense punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000. As we have seen throughout history, when a commodity is both in high demand and illegal, a black-market is created. The effects of the black-market of human organs are world-wide from China, India, Brazil, and right here in the United States."
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Organ Donors, 2002.
A discussion on the ethics and controversy surounding organ donations in the U.K..
2,402 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper examines the controversy surounding specific organ recipients and the moral arguments about assesssment of who should receive new organs. It puts forward the argument that the system lets people down by being too ?lenient? and how those of us who are born with properly working bodies should be taught to look after them and not just look to the ?safety net? of the National Health Service when we abuse them and they breakdown.
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"On the 30th of July 2002 George Best had a liver transplant after finding out the previous December that his liver function was down to 20%. Earlier that year he was admitted to Limassol hospital in Cyprus with fever and gastro-intestinal infection. Prior to this, in February 2001, he was treated in Belfast city hospital for pneumonia and two years ago he was treated in the Cromwell hospital for liver damage. In 1984 he was arrested for drink driving and assaulting a police officer. (www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2161540.stm) Each time he received warnings from doctors about his health, yet he repeatedly went back to drinking. These are either the actions of an irresponsible man who should be dealt with severely to protect himself and others, or someone who cannot control himself and needs extensive help. Either way is it right to release him back into society just to repeatedly offend and/or drink excessively, and eventually costing society more money either through medical treatment or policing."
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Tissue Donation, 2005.
An examination of the practice of tissue donation in the medical field.
2,418 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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This paper compares the benefits of tissue donation versus organ donation. It explains that transplanted tissues offer advantages, including the alleviation of trauma and assisting individuals to see again, while also acting as a life-saving gesture. The writer discusses how tissue transplantation is more prevalent than organ transplantation because tissues can be conveniently conserved. They can be covered with ice and kept for use later on, since they need less blood supply than organs.
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"Donated body organs like hearts and kidneys contribute to the saving of hundreds of lives each year. The fact is that bequeathed tissues like skin, bone and heart valves could remarkably enhance the value of life for the persons receiving them. A patient who is dead following a cardiac arrest i.e. whose heartbeat has stopped permanently cannot be an organ donor but can be a tissue donor. Though in case of tissue donation the urgency of restoring a life by donation of liver or heart is absent, yet it is no way less critical to bring back vision by the help of a donated cornea, avert the severing of a leg using a bone donated by somebody or brighten the odds of survival of a patient having sustained burn injuries by skin donation."
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Embryo Donation, 2008.
A look at the subject of embryo donation.
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses the issue of embryo donation, which is related to a number of moral, legal, psychological and social implications. The paper relates that, in spite of these implications, embryo donation is, nevertheless, the only solution to incapability of producing cells in a few patients. This paper then sums up the symptoms for embryo donation as well as the process and contemplation in preparing both the donors and the recipients.
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"Embryo donation is examined to be a sort of third party reproduction. In vitro fertilisation frequently results in a number of frozen, unused embryos after the woman for whom they were originally created has successfully supported one or more pregnancies to term. In embryo donation, these additional embryos are provided to other couples or women with the aim of causing a successful pregnancy. The child produced after following this entire process is supposed to be the child of the woman who takes it and gives birth, and not the child of the donor, the same as happens with egg donation or sperm donation."
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