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Unrelated and 'stranger'live kidney donation is motivated by many
considerations, as I report in my paper "Self-interest, self-abnegation
and self esteem: towards new moral economy of non-directed kidney
donation", Journal of Medical Ethics 2007 33(8)437-441. I am planning to
publish a booklet next month that reports 7 live kidney donors'
experiences at length in their own words, and puts them in the context of
known patterns of donation and the follow-up studies of donor welfare.
Called WHOSE KIDNEY IS IT NOW?, I hope it will be useful for those looking
for donors and those considering donation. Certainly articles like Annabel
Ferriman's are an important resource in helping people to make a decision
now that the Human Tissues Acts permit non-directed donation.
Sue Roff
s.l.roff@dundee.ac.uk
Competing interests:
Roff was member of the Unrelated Live Transplants Regulatory Authority in its last three years, but these are purely personal views.
Competing interests:
No competing interests
14 June 2008
Sue R Roff
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Medical Education, Dundee Medical School DD LR. c
Thank you, Annabel, for a great article. It's very you--expressing
your generosity, spontaneity, unstuffiness, and impatience with
bureaucracy and cant. I like to imagine you after the night before
thinking: "Oh my God. Did I really offer a kidney? I must cut back on the
zinfandel."
Everybody reading your article who still has two kidneys will think:
"Could I do the same?" I like to think that I could. I'm sure that I could
do it for my family and for a close friend. But beyond that? I'm not sure.
It's a big step up from giving blood or all your organs after death.
Many motivations for live kidney donation
Unrelated and 'stranger'live kidney donation is motivated by many considerations, as I report in my paper "Self-interest, self-abnegation and self esteem: towards new moral economy of non-directed kidney donation", Journal of Medical Ethics 2007 33(8)437-441. I am planning to publish a booklet next month that reports 7 live kidney donors' experiences at length in their own words, and puts them in the context of known patterns of donation and the follow-up studies of donor welfare. Called WHOSE KIDNEY IS IT NOW?, I hope it will be useful for those looking for donors and those considering donation. Certainly articles like Annabel Ferriman's are an important resource in helping people to make a decision now that the Human Tissues Acts permit non-directed donation.
Sue Roff s.l.roff@dundee.ac.uk
Competing interests: Roff was member of the Unrelated Live Transplants Regulatory Authority in its last three years, but these are purely personal views.
Competing interests: No competing interests