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Guest Editorial: Children as Organ Donors: A Persistent Ethical Issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2004

MARK SHELDON
MARK SHELDON
Affiliation:
Mark Sheldon, Ph.D., is College Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and the Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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When I started doing clinical ethics rounds, in the mid 1980s, I decided to venture onto the pediatrics ward. The first patient I encountered was a 3-year-old girl returning to her room, groggy from general anesthesia. When I inquired about her, the nurse explained that she had just gone through the procedure to donate bone marrow for her 1-year-old sister, who was preparing to undergo bone marrow transplantation for leukemia.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: CHILDREN AS ORGAN DONORS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 119 - 122
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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