Organ donation and transplantation: a brief history of technological and ethical developments

Abstract

It was on a dreary night in November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet … by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and convulsive motion agitated its limbs (Shelley, 1969).1

Citation

Baker, R.P. and Hargreaves, V. (2001), "Organ donation and transplantation: a brief history of technological and ethical developments", Shelton, W. and Balint, J. (Ed.) The Ethics of Organ Transplantation (Advances in Bioethics, Vol. 7), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3709(01)80005-4