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Presumed Consent For Organ Donation: Principlism Opts Out, Ryan M. Marquardt
Presumed Consent For Organ Donation: Principlism Opts Out, Ryan M. Marquardt
Bioethics in Faith and Practice
The number of available organs for transplant each year falls woefully short of the number of patients in need of donated organs in the United States. While approval numbers are very high for organ donation, the number of registered donors is much smaller. A commonly proposed solution to increase the pool of organ donors is to replace the current explicit consent policy with a presumed consent system, where everyone is considered to have consented as a donor unless they have opted out by joining a non-donor registry or by some other method. This proposal raises many ethical questions that must …
Death With Dignity, Bemjamin Adam, Samantha Gross, John Nybo, Joel Sweeney
Death With Dignity, Bemjamin Adam, Samantha Gross, John Nybo, Joel Sweeney
Introduction to Public Health Posters
The death with dignity movement, which encompasses euthanasia, is a current trend in healthcare that negatively affects the public health of nations and adversely impacts the profession of pharmacy .