Treating the dead; how far ought medicine go to obtain transplantable organs?

Under what circumstances, is it ethical to perform tumor surgery on a brain-dead individual? The neurosurgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital were recently faced with such a question when asked to operate on a 28-year-old man who was pronounced brain-dead secondary to a severe brain-stem injur...

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Main Authors: Joshua D. Bernstock, Joshua I. Chalif, Rohan Jha, Ashley Brown, Walid I. Essayed, Arthur Caplan, Pierpaolo Peruzzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Transplantation
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frtra.2023.1297957/full