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    The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-3 DOI 10.1007/s11673-012-9361-3 Authors Dominique E. Martin, 39 Eltham Street, Flemington, 3031 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Online ISSN 1872-4353 Print ISSN 1176-7529
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    One of the areas of concern raised by cross-border reproductive travel regards the treatment of women who are solicited to provide their ova or surrogacy services to foreign consumers. This is particularly troublesome in the context of developing countries where endemic poverty and low standards for both medical care and informed consent may place these women at risk of exploitation and harm. We explore two contrasting proposals for policy development regarding the industry, both of which seek t…Read more
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    Risk, Regulation, and Financial Incentives for Living Kidney Donation
    with Sarah White
    American Journal of Bioethics 14 (10): 46-48. 2014.
    No abstract
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    National self-sufficiency in reproductive resources: An innovative response to transnational reproductive travel
    with Stefan Kane
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 7 (2): 10-44. 2014.
    Transnational reproductive travel is symptomatic of insufficient supplies of reproductive resources, including donor gametes and gestational surrogacy services, and inequities in access to these within domestic health-care jurisdictions. Here, we argue that an innovative approach to domestic policy making using the framework of the National Self-Sufficiency paradigm represents the best solution to domestic challenges and the ethical hazards of the global marketplace in reproductive resources.
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    Primary care physicians' views about gatekeeping in clinical research recruitment: A qualitative study
    with Marilys Guillemin, Rosalind McDougall, Nina Hallowell, Alison Brookes, and Lynn Gillam
    AJOB Empirical Bioethics 8 (2): 99-105. 2017.
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    Where a person is unable to make medical decisions for themselves, law and practice allows others to make decisions on their behalf. This is common at the end of a person’s life where decision-making capacity is often lost. A further, and separate, decision that is often considered at the time of death (and often preceding death) is whether the person wanted to act as an organ or tissue donor. However, in some jurisdictions, the lawful decision-maker for the donation decision (the ‘donation deci…Read more
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    Therapeutic appropriation: a new concept in the ethics of clinical research
    with Rosalind McDougall, Lynn Gillam, Nina Hallowell, Alison Brookes, and Marilys Guillemin
    Journal of Medical Ethics 42 (12): 805-808. 2016.
    Ethical concerns about therapeutic misconception have been raised since the early 1980s. This concept was originally described as research participants' assumptions that decisions relating to research interventions are made on the basis of their individual therapeutic needs. The term has since been used to refer to a range of ‘misunderstandings’ that research participants may have. In this paper, we describe a new concept—therapeutic appropriation. Therapeutic appropriation occurs when patients,…Read more
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    Banking on Living Kidney Donors—A New Way to Facilitate Donation without Compromising on Ethical Values
    with Gabriel M. Danovitch
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 42 (5): 537-558. 2017.
    Public surveys conducted in many countries report widespread willingness of individuals to donate a kidney while alive to a family member or close friend, yet thousands suffer and many die each year while waiting for a kidney transplant. Advocates of financial incentive programs or “regulated markets” in kidneys present the problem of the kidney shortage as one of insufficient public motivation to donate, arguing that incentives will increase the number of donors. Others believe the solutions li…Read more
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    Certainty, Science, and the Brain-Based Definition of Death
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (3): 279-282. 2023.
    Nair-Collins and Joffe (2023) highlight the complexities inherent to the clinical diagnosis of death by neurologic criteria and inconsistencies between legal, scientific, and clinical standards for...
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    Uterus Transplantation as a Surgical Innovation
    with Alicia Pérez-Blanco, José-Antonio Seoane, Teresa Aldabo Pallás, Montserrat Nieto-Moro, Rocío Núñez Calonge, and Alfonso de la Fuente
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 20 (3): 367-378. 2023.
    Uterus transplantation (UTx) research has been introduced in several countries, with trials in Sweden and the United States producing successful outcomes. The growing interest in developing UTx trials in other countries, such as Spain, the Netherlands, Japan, and Australia, raises important questions regarding the ethics of surgical innovation research in the field of UTx. This paper examines the current state of UTx in the context of the surgical innovation paradigm and IDEAL framework and disc…Read more
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    A Call for Dialysis-Specific Resource Allocation Guidelines During COVID-19
    with Jordan A. Parsons
    American Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 199-201. 2020.
    Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 199-201.
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    Self-sufficiency in Human Biological Materials
    Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 3 59-65. 2018.
    National self-sufficiency in human biological materials such as blood and organs is now commonly invoked as a goal for healthcare policy makers. Despite its history as a strategic response to the ethical hazards of global trade in human blood, the ethical dimensions of the concept have been inadequately explored. This paper introduces self-sufficiency as an ethical paradigm for policy-making and explores some of the parallels found in Aristotle’s account of autarkeia in the polis. It highlights …Read more
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    7. Deciding about Living Organ Donation
    In Solveig Lena Hansen & Silke Schicktanz (eds.), Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation, Transcript Verlag. pp. 133-150. 2021.
  • with Jean-Luc Metzger and Pierre Philippe
    Éditions du Seuil. 2003.