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The role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement
In almost all opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement, if the deceased has not made a decision about donation, his relatives will be asked to make it. Can this decision power be justified? I consider three possible justifications. (1) We could presume the deceased to have delegated this power...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3319896/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21365351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-011-9317-0 |
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description | In almost all opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement, if the deceased has not made a decision about donation, his relatives will be asked to make it. Can this decision power be justified? I consider three possible justifications. (1) We could presume the deceased to have delegated this power to his relatives. (2) It could be argued that, if the deceased has not made a decision, a proxy decision has to be made in his best interests. (3) The relatives could have a standing of their own because they are singled out from the parties whose interests are being affected by the decision by the special relation they had to the deceased. None of these arguments turns out to be convincing. |
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spelling | pubmed-33198962012-04-05 The role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement den Hartogh, Govert Med Health Care Philos Scientific Contribution In almost all opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement, if the deceased has not made a decision about donation, his relatives will be asked to make it. Can this decision power be justified? I consider three possible justifications. (1) We could presume the deceased to have delegated this power to his relatives. (2) It could be argued that, if the deceased has not made a decision, a proxy decision has to be made in his best interests. (3) The relatives could have a standing of their own because they are singled out from the parties whose interests are being affected by the decision by the special relation they had to the deceased. None of these arguments turns out to be convincing. Springer Netherlands 2011-03-02 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3319896/ /pubmed/21365351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-011-9317-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Scientific Contribution den Hartogh, Govert The role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement |
title | The role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement |
title_full | The role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement |
title_fullStr | The role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement |
title_short | The role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement |
title_sort | role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement |
topic | Scientific Contribution |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3319896/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21365351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-011-9317-0 |
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