What is it about?
Illustrates the process of organ donation following euthanasia in Belgium and raises some of the ethical issues arising from it
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Why is it important?
It is important that each and every organ transplanted is ethically acquired. Euthanasia of those with psychiatric illness raises particular concerns in Belgium currently
Perspectives
The recent admonishment in Belgium of Dr Lieve Thienpont over the high numbers of her psychiatric patients she has euthanised, accentuates the importance of the issues raised in this chapter and the whole book
Dr Trevor Stammers
St Mary's University
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This page is a summary of: ‘A Last Act of Grace’? Organ Donation and Euthanasia in Belgium, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/9781108182799.008.
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