Organ Donation & Transplantation

Organ Donation and Transplantation (General)

• Caplan, Arthur L. and Daniel H. Coelho, eds. The Ethics of Organ Transplants: The Current Debate. New York: Prometheus Books, 1998.
• 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.
• DeLong, William R., ed. Organ Transplantation in Religious, Ethical and Social Context. Binghamton, NY: The Hawthorne Press, 1993.
• Gruessner, Rainer and Enrico Benedetti. Living Donor Organ Transplantation. New York: McGraw Hill Professional, 2008.
• Haerens, Margaret. Organ Donation. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Greenhaven Press, 2012.
• Hamilton, David. A History of Organ Transplantation: Ancient Legends to Modern Practice. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
• Henderson, D. Scott. Death and Donation: Rethinking Brain Death as a Means for Procuring Transplantable Organs. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011.
• Jensen, Steven, ed. The Ethics of Organ Transplantation. Catholic University of America Press, 2011.
• Lock, Margaret. Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. University of California Press, 2002.
• Miller, Franklin, and Robert Truog. Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Munson, Ronald. Raising the Dead: Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Petechuk, David. Organ Transplantation. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
• Richards, Janet Radcliffe. The Ethics of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
• 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. Advances in Bioethics Vol. 7. West Yorkshire, England: Emerald Group, 2001.
• 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.
• Veatch, Robert M. Transplantation Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.

Out of Print

• Younger, Stuart J., Renee C. Fox, and Laurence J. O’Connell, eds. Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Commodification or Trafficking Organs

• Ben-David, Orit Brawer. Organ Donation and Transplantation: Body Organs as an Exchangeable Socio-Cultural Resource. Westport CT: Praeger, 2005.
• Carney, Scott. The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers. William Morrow, 2011.
• Cheney, Annie. Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains. Broadway Books, 2006.
• Cherry, Mark J. Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.
• Decker, Oliver. Commodified Bodies: Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade. New York: Routledge, 2014.
• Goodwin, Michele. Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Healey, Kieran. Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
• Lundin, Susanne. Organs for Sale: An Ethnographic Examination of the International Organ Trade. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Marie-Andree, Jacob. Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
• Taylor, James Stacy. Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative.Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005.
• Territo, Leonard and Rande Matteson, eds. The International Trafficking of Human Organs: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 2012.
• Wilkinson, Stephen. Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade. New York: Routledge: 2003.
• Wilkinson, T. M. Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Out of Print

• Andrews, Lori, and Dorothy Nelkin. Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age. New York: Crown, 2001.

Policy

• Anderson, Martha W., Renie Schapiro, and Stuart J. Youngner, eds. Transplantation Human Tissue: Ethics, Policy and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Beard, T. Randolph, David Kaserman, and Rigmar Osterkamp. The Global Organ Shortage: Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses. Stanford University Press, 2013.
• Hamdy, Sherine. Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt. University of California Press, 2012.
• Price, David. Human Tissue in Transplantation and Research: A Model Legal and Ethical Donation Framework. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Price, David P. T. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Organ Transplantation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Weimer, David Leo. Medical Governance: Values, Expertise, and Interests in Organ Transplantation. American Governance and Public Policy Series. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2010.

Out of Print

• Arnold, Robert M. Procuring Organs for Transplant: The Debate Over Non-Heart-Beating Cadaver Protocols. Baltimore, MD, 1995.

Xenotransplantation

• Committee on Xenograft Transplantation, Institute of Medicine. Xenotransplantation: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 1996. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5365/xenotransplantation-science-ethics-and-p....
• Cooper, David K.C. and Robert P. Lanza, Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs into Humans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Costa, Cristina and Rafael Máñez, eds. Xenotransplantation: Methods and Protocols. New York: Humana Press, 2012.
• Fovarque, Sara. Xenotransplantation and Risk: Regulating a Developing Biotechnology (Cambridge, Law, Medicine and Ethics). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Sharp, Lesley A. The Transplant Imaginary: Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science. University of California Press, 2014.

Out of Print

• Bryan, Jenny, and John Clare. Organ Farm: Pig to Human Transplants—Medical Miracle or Genetic Time Bomb? London: Carlton, 2001.
• McLean, Sheila and Laura Williamson. Xenotransplantation: Law and Ethics. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

For additional related material see the End of Life, Clinical & Medical Ethics, and Human Dignity Bibliographies.