Organ Donation & Transplantation Bibliography
Post Date: 10/05/2012
The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's position or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.
- Anderson, Martha W., Renie Schapiro, and Stuart J. Youngner, eds. Transplantion Human Tissue: Ethics, Policy and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Andrews, Lori, and Dorothy Nelkin. Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age. New York: Crown, 2001.
- Arnold, Robert M. Procuring Organs for Transplant: The Debate Over Non-Heart-Beating Cadaver Protocols. Baltimore, MD, 1995.
- Ben-David, Orit Brawer. Organ Donation and Transplantation: Body Organs as an Exchangeable Socio-Cultural Resource. Westport CT: Praeger, 2005.
- Budiani-Saberi D.A. and F.L. Delmonico. “Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism: A Commentary on the Global Realities.”American Journal of Transplantation 8 (2008): 925-929.
- Bryan, Jenny, and John Clare. Organ Farm: Pig to Human Transplants—Medical Miracle or Genetic Time Bomb? London: Carlton, 2001.
- Caplan, Arthur L. and Daniel H. Coelho, eds. The Ethics of Organ Transplants: The Current Debate. New York: Prometheus Books, 1998.
- Carney, Scott. The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers. William Morrow, 2011.
- Cheney, Annie. Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains. Broadway Books, 2006.
- Cherry, Mark J. Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.
- Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation. Organ Donation: Opportunity for Action. Edited by James F. Childress and Catharyn T. Liverman. Washington DC: The National Academies Press, 2006.
- Cooper, David K.C. and Robert P. Lanza, Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs into Humans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- DeLong, William R., ed. Organ Transplantation in Religious, Ethical and Social Context. Binghamton, NY: The Hawthorne Press, 1993.
- Goodwin, Michele. Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Gruessner, Rainer and Enrico Benedetti. Living Donor Organ Transplantation. New York: McGraw Hill Professional, 2008.
- Hamilton, David. A History of Organ Transplantation: Ancient Legends to Modern Practice. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
- Healey, Kieran. Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Jensen, Steven, ed. The Ethics of Organ Transplantation. Catholic University of America Press, 2011.
- McLean, Shella and Laura Williamson. Xenotransplantation: Law and Ethics. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.
- Miller, Franklin, and Robert Truog. Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Moylan CA., C.W. Brady, J.L. Johnson, A.D. Smith, J.E. Tuttle-Newhall and A.J. Muir. “Disparities in Liver Transplantation Before and After Introduction of the MELD Score.” JAMA 300 (2008): 2371-2378.
- Munson, Ronald. Raising the Dead: Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2002.
- Petechuk, David. Organ Transplantation. Wesport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
- Price, David. Human Tissue in Transplantation and Research: A Model Legal and Ethical Donation Framework. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Price, David P. T. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Organ Transplantation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Resnick D. “The Jesica Santillen Tragedy: Lessons Learned.” Hastings Center Report 33 (2003): 15-20.
- Richards, Janet Radcliffe. The Ethics of Tranplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Sharp, Lesley A. Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured, and the Transformed Self. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 2006.
- Shelton, Wayne N. and John Balint, eds. The Ethics of Organ Transplantation. New York: Elsevier Science, 2001.
- Shimazono Y. “The State of the International Organ Trade: A Provisional Picture Based on Integration of Available Information.” Bulletin of the World Heath Organization 85 (2007): 955-962.
- Talbot, David and Anthony M. D’Alessandro, eds. Organ Donation and Transplantation After Cardiac Death. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Tilney, Nicholas L. Transplant: From Myth to Reality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
- Taylor, James Stacy. Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005.
- Trzepacz, Paula T. and Andrea F. DiMartini, eds. The Transplant Patient: Biological, Psychiatric, and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Veatch, Robert M. Transplantation Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
- Wilkinson, Stephen. Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade. New York: Routledge: 2003.
- Wilkinson, T. M. Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Younger, Stuart J., Renee C. Fox, and Laurence J. O’Connell, eds. Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
Updated September 2012






