ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2020
The ethical obligation of the dead donor rule.
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- [Controlled Donation after Circulatory determination of Death (cDCD) : A position paper by the DCD working group of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI)].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2026Review
- When End-of-Life Becomes the Beginning of New Life: Application of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines on Adult End-of-Life Care in the ICU to the Setting of Donation After Circulatory Death.Critical care explorations · 2026Article
- cDCDD and Heart Procurement: Challenges from a French Critical Care Perspective.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025Article
- Knowledge gaps in heart and lung donation after the circulatory determination of death: Report of a workshop of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2024Article
- The inviolateness of life and equal protection: a defense of the dead-donor rule.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2022Article
- Brain death debates: from bioethics to philosophy of science.F1000Research · 2022Article
- The intractable problems with brain death and possible solutions.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2021Review
- Controversy in the Determination of Death: The Definition and Moment of Death.The Linacre quarterly · 2019Article
- Whole-brain death and integration: realigning the ontological concept with clinical diagnostic tests.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2019Article
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Abstract
The dead donor rule (DDR) originally stated that organ donors must not be killed by and for organ donation. Scholars later added the requirement that vital organs should not be procured before death. Some now argue that the DDR is breached in donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) programs. DCDD programs do not breach the original version of the DDR because vital organs are procured only after circulation has ceased permanently as a consequence of withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy. We hold that the original rendition of the DDR banning killing by and for organ donation is the fundamental norm that should be maintained in transplantation ethics. We propose separating the DDR from two other fundamental normative rules: the duties to prevent harm and to obtain informed consent.
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