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The Ethics of Using Prisoners as Sources of Cadaver Organs

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (ET)

Philadelphia, PA

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The movement to try and close the ever-widening gap between demand and supply of organs by creative strategies has recently arrived at the prison gate in the USA and other nations.  While there is some enthusiasm for using prisoners as sources of organs, there are both practical barriers and moral concerns which make it likely that the use of prisoners will not and ought not contribute in any way to relieving the problem of organ shortage through cadaveric donation. Indeed it is time for the medical community to speak up in protest of the continuing practice of execution to get organs in China and some other nations.

Speaker: Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, FCPP

Sponsored by the College’s Section on Medicine, Ethics, and the Law.

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The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (ET)


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