Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation

Part I. Living Donation

1. Children as Living Donors
Lainie Friedman Ross, J. Richard Thistlethwaite

2. Living Donors for Fulminant Hepatic Failure in Children
Maja Segedi, Genieve Dhani, Vicky L. Ng, David Grant

3. Answers to Questions that Weren’t Asked: The Ethical Complexities of Identifying Misattributed Paternity During the Transplant Evaluation Process
Michael A. Freeman, Lisa S. Parker

Part II. Deceased Donation

4. The Ethics of Persuasion: Evaluating the Ethical Limits on Attempting to Persuade Families to Donate the Organs of Deceased Family Members
Jennifer A. Chandler, Vanessa Gruben

5. Death Determination in Pediatric Organ Donation
Sam D. Shemie, Ivan Ortega-Deballon, Sonny Dhanani

6. Controlled Donation After Cardiac Death in Pediatrics
Erin Paquette, Joel Frader

7. The Newborn as Organ Donor
Christopher Tomlinson, Jonathan Hellmann

8. Ethical and Organizational Issues in Adopting a Pediatric Protocol for Controlled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death
Charlotte H. Harrison

Part III. Emerging Challenges

9. Ethical Issues in Pediatric Small Bowel Transplantation
Annie Fecteau

10. Ethical Issues in Pediatric Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
Randi Zlotnik Shaul, Gregory H. Borschel, Jennifer Flynn, Mark D. Hanson, Linda Wright, Ronald M. Zuker

11. The Ethics of Managing Conflicts in the Era of Social Media
Sandra Amaral, Pamela Nathanson, Chris Feudtner

Part IV. Allocating Organs

12. Neurodevelopmental Status as a Criterion for Solid Organ Transplant Eligibility
Aaron Wightman, Jodi Smith, Douglas S. Diekema

13. Should Transplantation Be Offered to Pediatric Foreign Nationals?
Marie-Chantal Fortin, Rebecca A. Greenberg

Part V. Recipient Issues

14. The Ethics of Uncertainty, Risk, and Trust in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Daniel Z. Buchman, Anne I. Dipchand

15. Ethical Considerations in the Psychosocial Evaluation of Pediatric Organ Transplant Candidates, Recipients and Their Families
Sabrina F. Derrington, Aviva M. Goldberg, Joel E. Frader

16. Ethical Issues in the Care of the Adolescent Transplant Recipient
Aviva M. Goldberg, Richard Fine

Nyckelord: Philosophy, Ethics, Transplant Surgery, Pediatrics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Philosophy of Medicine