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Advances in Bioethics
The Ethics of Organ Transplantation
Edited by
Wayne Shelton
Wayne Shelton
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John Balint
John Balint
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Volume
7
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3709(2001)7
ISBN electronic:
978-1-84950-096-8
ISBN print:
978-0-76230-764-7
Series ISSN:
1479-3709
Publication date:
2001
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Organ transplantation issues in minors

By
Marilyn A. Fisher
Marilyn A. Fisher
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Marilyn A. Fisher
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2001
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3709(01)80018-2
  • Published:
    2001
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2001

Currently, medical ethics may place tighter restrictions on the procedures involved in fetal organ and tissue transplantation than does the legal system. Although it may be legal to do certain procedures, and, recently, technically possible to do certain procedures, careful attention must be devoted to ethical considerations in the field of fetal organ/tissue transplantation. Simply because there are no legal or technical barriers to doing some of these procedures does not necessarily mean that performance of these procedures is morally correct.

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