ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Product Red, Brain Death, American Express
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Changes in controversial organ donation method stir fears. Dcd involves surgeons taking organs within minutes of respirators and other forms of life support have being cut off from hospitalized patients who still have at least some brain activity. Dcd had been the norm for organ donors before neurological criteria . Brain death became the standard in the early 1970s. > the decision of americans to travel aborad to obtain organs. > moving americans abord to find lifesaving organ transplants, and moving te body parts of a deceased child in boston to the duke university medical centre in durham. Jesica was a kind of hybrid figure, a controversial, remarkably agile medical citizen. These stories and commentary soon turned to ugly questions about why organs from an american citizen were used to save the life of an undocumented immigrant when so many american citizens were dying while waiting for transplants http://www. washingtonpost. com/national/health-science/changes-in-controversial-organ- donation-method-stir-fears/2011/09/15/giqaly9agk_story. html.
