Word: kidney
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Ethicists worry sometimes about the psychological damage done to both donors and recipients. How will children react in later life to being conjured up and used in this way? Consider the case of Michelle Kline, a contestant in the 1989 Miss America contest, who received a kidney from her brother 19 months before the pageant. She would not speak to him afterward, although they later reconciled. "The sense of having part of her brother inside her created tremendous tensions," says Renee Fox, a medical-sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The tyranny of the gift: "It was a feeling...
...morally acceptable to remove a kidney or other nonessential organ from a living person for use in another person's body...
Would you donate a kidney for transplant to a close relative who needed...
...ethical to ask a child under the age of 18 to give up a kidney for a transplant to a relative...
...outstripped supply. In 1967, the first person ever to feel the beat of another man's heart in his own chest survived for just 18 days after the operation. Today, more than eight out of 10 heart recipients live at least a year with their borrowed organs. For kidney transplants, first-year survival tops 90%. As success rates soar, doctors attempt ever more variations on the transplant theme: installing a new pancreas, lobes of a live donor's lungs, even several organs at once. But rising hopes mean more people will be disappointed. Some 23,000 Americans desperately await replacement...