Skip to content
Primary Navigation

The Hastings Center for Bioethics

  • Who We Are
    • Strategic Plan: 2025-2029
    • Mission
    • Team
    • Financials
    • For the Media
    • Hastings Center for Bioethics News
  • What We Do
    • Research
    • Webinars
    • Hastings Bioethics Resources
    • Events
    • Focus Areas
    • Bioethics Careers & Education
    • Newsletter
    • The Bioethics Founders’ Award
    • Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician and Nursing Awards
  • Publications
    • Hastings Center Report
    • Ethics & Human Research
    • Special Reports
    • Hastings Bioethics Forum
    • Bioethics Briefings
    • Books by Hastings Scholars
  • Support Us
    • Online Giving
    • Ways To Give
    • The Hastings Center Beneficence Society
    • Why We Give
    • Gift Planning
    • Contact Us
Search The Hastings Center

Organ Transplantation

Bioethics Forum Essay
pig heart transplantation

Myopic View of Xenotransplantation

. A report last week in the New York Times of a pig heart transplant performed at the University of Maryland Medical Center exemplifies a common myopic view of xenotransplantation research.
Read Myopic View of Xenotransplantation
Bioethics Forum Essay
Black man looking in the mirror

Beyond the Gift of Life: What Else to Expect from an Organ Transplant

“Between the time of my heart transplant and the moment my hair began to fall out, I arguably had suffered enough,” writes Leilani R. Graham. “Transplant brought four open-heart surgeries, ten days on ECMO, an intra-aortic balloon pump, delirium, necrotizing pneumonia, and so much muscular atrophy that I had to re-learn how to walk. [Transplant] was not the miracle I was hoping for.”
Read Beyond the Gift of Life: What Else to Expect from an Organ Transplant
Bioethics Forum Essay
organ donation

Medical Aid in Dying and Organ Donation: Canada’s Autonomy Gap

One of the most important aspects of the Canada's medical aid-in-dying process is the respect given for the patients’ wishes concerning organ donation. People dying of other causes should be shown the same respect.
Read Medical Aid in Dying and Organ Donation: Canada’s Autonomy Gap
Bioethics Forum Essay

Proposal for Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act

We believe that the concept of brain death, though flawed in its present application, can be preserved and promoted as a pathway to organ donation, but only after particular changes are made in the medical criteria for its diagnosis.
Read Proposal for Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act
Bioethics Forum Essay

Xenotransplantation: Three Areas of Concern

News of the first transplant of a pig’s heart into a human raises hope that the procedure could one day help alleviate the shortage of organs. But before we forge ahead with xenotransplantation trials, we should be concerned about several issues: the potential to spread pathogens, exploitation of human research participants, and animal welfare.
Read Xenotransplantation: Three Areas of Concern
Bioethics Forum Essay

Individuals Declared Brain-Dead Remain Biologically Alive

A remarkable experiment raises anew questions about whether brain-death is really death.
Read Individuals Declared Brain-Dead Remain Biologically Alive
Bioethics Forum Essay

What Every Prospective Living Kidney Donor Should Know

There is a growing call for the lifetime risk of living kidney donation to be disclosed to prospective donors. This information is essential for informed consent.
Read What Every Prospective Living Kidney Donor Should Know
Bioethics Forum Essay

New Regulation for Organ Procurement Will Improve Equity and Save Lives

In the more than 35 years since federal legislation created organ procurement organizations (OPOs) to recover organs from deceased donors for transplantation, there has been a disparity in their performance,...
Read New Regulation for Organ Procurement Will Improve Equity and Save Lives
Bioethics Forum Essay

Kidney Donors Should Be Treated Like Philanthropists, Not Like Vendors

Several years ago, one of us decided to donate a kidney to someone who needed one. She didn’t anticipate the difficulties that would arise from the process by which donors are evaluated.
Read Kidney Donors Should Be Treated Like Philanthropists, Not Like Vendors
Bioethics Forum Essay

U.S. Organ Donation Needs Better Oversight, but New Rule Will Not Help

More than 100,000 people in this country are waiting for a life-saving transplant and on average 30 people die each day while waiting. The nonprofit organizations responsible for coordinating organ transplants between donors and recipient could be doing more to lower these numbers. A new government proposal designed to more closely regulate OPOs could, in some respects, actually make the situation worse.
Read U.S. Organ Donation Needs Better Oversight, but New Rule Will Not Help
Bioethics Forum Essay

Evaluating Recommendations to Increase Organ Donation

While the U.S. system of organ donation and transplantation is in a state of growth for the fifth year in a row, the call for new strategies to accelerate that...
Read Evaluating Recommendations to Increase Organ Donation
Bioethics Forum Essay
medical surgeons performing surgery

When Are Organ Recipients Human Research Subjects?

Do the recipients of organ transplants have a right to know if the organs they are about to receive were part of a research study? If so, are the recipients...
Read When Are Organ Recipients Human Research Subjects?
Bioethics Forum Essay
hand with wedding ring

From Jackie and Me: A Plea for Opt-Out Organ Donation

Three weeks ago, my dear friend Jackie, a internationally recognized bioethicist in her fifties who lives in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, went to bed with what she thought was a bad case of...
Read From Jackie and Me: A Plea for Opt-Out Organ Donation
Bioethics Forum Essay
surgeon holding scissors

Getting By with a Little Help from Your Friends

If the mutilated body of one of your research subjects is discovered in a blood-soaked bathroom, who should investigate the death?  If you want to be cleared of blame, it’s...
Read Getting By with a Little Help from Your Friends
The Hastings Center
  • Connect:
  • The Hastings Center on Facebook
  • The Hastings Center on Linkedin
  • The Hastings Center on Twitter / X
  • The Hastings Center on YouTube
  • The Hastings Center on Instagram
  • The Hastings Center on Threads
  • The Hastings Center on Bluesky
  • Send The Hastings Center an Email

Registered 501(c)(3).
EIN: 13-2662222
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

  • Who We Are
    • Strategic Plan: 2025-2029
    • Mission
    • Team
    • Financials
    • For the Media
    • Hastings Center for Bioethics News
  • What We Do
    • Research
    • Webinars
    • Hastings Bioethics Resources
    • Events
    • Focus Areas
    • Bioethics Careers & Education
    • Newsletter
    • The Bioethics Founders’ Award
    • Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician and Nursing Awards
  • Publications
    • Hastings Center Report
    • Ethics & Human Research
    • Special Reports
    • Hastings Bioethics Forum
    • Bioethics Briefings
    • Books by Hastings Scholars
  • Support Us
    • Online Giving
    • Ways To Give
    • The Hastings Center Beneficence Society
    • Why We Give
    • Gift Planning
    • Contact Us
Never Miss an Article.New Forum posts delivered to your inbox.
Name
yourname@example.com
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
johnsmith@example.com
Interests

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. We never share your private information with third parties.AgreeNoPrivacy policy
  • Who We Are
    • Back
    • Strategic Plan: 2025-2029
    • Mission
    • Team
    • Financials
    • For the Media
    • Hastings Center for Bioethics News
  • What We Do
    • Back
    • Research
    • Webinars
    • Hastings Bioethics Resources
    • Events
    • Focus Areas
    • Bioethics Careers & Education
    • Newsletter
    • The Bioethics Founders’ Award
    • Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician and Nursing Awards
  • Publications
    • Back
    • Hastings Center Report
    • Ethics & Human Research
    • Special Reports
    • Hastings Bioethics Forum
    • Bioethics Briefings
    • Books by Hastings Scholars
  • Support Us
    • Back
    • Online Giving
    • Ways To Give
    • The Hastings Center Beneficence Society
    • Why We Give
    • Gift Planning
    • Contact Us
  •  
  • Donate Now
  •  
  • Facebook
  • Linkedin
  • Twitter / X
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Threads
  • Bluesky
  • Contact
  •  
  • Events
    Upcoming Events
    Previous Events
  • Receive Our Newsletter

  •  
  • For the Media
  • Terms of Use
  • Sitemap