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Organ transplantation can extend life and improve the quality of life of patients. Organ transplantation raises a number of significant ethical issues ranging from how living and deceased donors become donors and how organs are allocated. The number of patients who could benefit from transplantation far exceeds the number of organs available despite efforts to increase the number of organs available, a circumstance that raises important ethical questions.
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Iltis, A.S. (2014). Organ Transplantation. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_317-1
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