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Should patients be kept on life support just to preserve their organs for transplantation?
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With the demand for organs ever increasing world-wide the implicit pressures to obtain organs from patients who are not dead often proves irresistible
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A paper expressing ethical reservations about non-therapeutic ventilation of patients
Dr Trevor Stammers
St Mary's University
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This page is a summary of: ‘Elective’ Ventilation, The New Bioethics, November 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1179/2050287713z.00000000033.
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