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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.

• 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.
• Caplan, Arthur L. and Daniel H. Coelho, eds. The Ethics of Organ Transplants: The Current Debate. New York: Prometheus Books, 1998.
• 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.
• McLean, Shella and Laura Williamson. Xenotransplantation: Law and Ethics. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.
• Morgan S.E., T.R. Harrison, L. Chewning, L. Davis, and M. DiCorcia.  “Entertainment (Mis)education: The Framing of Organ Donation in Entertainment Television.” Health Communication 22 (2007): 143-151.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Trzepacz, Paula T. and Andrea F. DiMartini, eds. The Transplant Patient: Biological, Psychiatric, and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Younger, Stuart J., Renee C. Fox, and Laurence J. O’Connell, eds. Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
• Veatch, Robert M. Transplantation Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.

Updated November 2009