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The Child as Living Donor: Parental Consent and Child Assent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2004

ROSALIND EKMAN LADD
ROSALIND EKMAN LADD
Affiliation:
Rosalind Ekman Ladd, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, and Visiting Professor of Bioethics at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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Extract

Despite the much-discussed court cases in the 1970s that permitted some sibling-to-sibling kidney donations from minors,1 principles that can guide parental, medical, or judicial decisionmaking are neither clearly articulated nor uncontroversial.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: CHILDREN AS ORGAN DONORS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 143 - 148
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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