Chapter 4.A.1: Organ Donation by Individuals with Decisionmaking Capacity

There is a robust legal literature on organ donation. For some starting readings, see Allison Tong et al., Living Kidney Donor Assessment, 13 Am. J. Transplantation 2912 (2013)Morgan E. Grams et al., Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate, 374 New Eng. J. Med. 411 (2016); Martin D. Jendrisak et al., Altruistic Living Donors, 6 Am. J. Transplantation 115 (2006); Paul E. Morrissey et al., Good Samaritan Kidney Donation, 27 Transplantation 1369 (2005); Lainie Friedman Ross et al., Ethics in Living Donor Transplantation, in Transplantation of the Liver 65 (Ronald W. Busuttil & Göran B.G. Klintmalm eds., 3d ed. 2015);Kavita Arora & Valarie Blake, Uterus Transplantation, 125 Obstetrics & Gynecology 971 (2015); David Orentlicher, Toward Acceptance of Uterus Transplants, 42(6) Hastings Center Rep. 12 (2012); I. Glenn Cohen, Borrowed Wombs: On Uterus Transplants and the Right to Experience Pregnancy, 2022 U. Chi. L. Forum 127 (2024); Brendan Parent, Informing Donors About Hand and Face Transplants, 10 J. Health & Biomedical L. 309 (2015); Maria Siemionow et al., Successes and Lessons Learned after More han a Decade of Upper Extremity and Face Transplantation, 18 Curr. Opin. Organ Transplantation 633 (2013).