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Donation: Organs

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Organ donation has the potential to save and enhance lives. However, the increasing imbalance between demand and supply for transplantable organs has led to ethical challenges. This entry discusses some of these ethical challenges in light of the social, cultural, and spiritual issues that deceased and living organ donation raises in different contexts around the globe.

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  1. Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand

    Rhonda Shaw

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  1. Center for Healthcare Ethics, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Henk ten Have

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Shaw, R. (2016). Donation: Organs. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09483-0_152

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