Organ Donation & Transplantation Bibliography

 

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