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Recasting the Debate on Multiple Listing for Transplantation through Consideration of Both Principles and Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

RACHEL A. ANKENY
RACHEL A. ANKENY
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
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Abstract

Debates continue to surround the system in the United States for allocating transplantable cadaveric organs, due in large part to the scarcity of such organs in relation to the number of individuals waiting to undergo transplantation. Candidates awaiting transplantation gain access to cadaveric organs by being placed by individual transplant programs on the national list of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), overseen by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). In recent years, the UNOS board has visited (and revisited) the issue of multiple listing, that is, allowing one candidate to be registered on the waiting lists of two or more transplant programs, and has continued to permit multiple listing.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: Organ Transplantation: Shaping Policy and Keeping Public Trust
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 330 - 339
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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