As professor of medical ethics at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Robert M. Veatch is an able dissector of the ethical principles involved in the arena of human organ transplantation.  As a member of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Ethics Committee, and formerly chair of its Organ Allocation Subcommittee, Veatch has practical experience with many of the issues involved in the distribution of organs for transplantation.  As chair of a local Organ-Procurement Organization (OPO) Task Force on Directed Donation, he has particular insight into procurement.  While Transplantation Ethics is certainly a reference, it is more an exposition ...read more