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| Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China |
| 2022-04-06 |
| [AmJournalOfTransplantation] ABSTRACT The dead donor rule is fundamental to transplant ethics. The rule states that organ procurement must not commence until the donor is both dead and formally pronounced so, and by the same token, that procurement of organs must not cause the death of the donor. In a separate area of medical practice, there has been intense controversy around the participation of physicians in the execution of capital prisoners. These two apparently disparate topics converge in a unique case: the intimate involvement of transplant surgeons in China in the execution of prisoners via the procurement of organs. We use computational text analysis to conduct a forensic review of 2838 papers drawn from a dataset of 124 770 Chinese-language transplant publications. Our algorithm searched for evidence of problematic declarations of brain death during organ procurement. We find evidence in 71 of these reports, spread nationwide, that brain death could not have properly been declared. In these cases, the removal of the heart during organ procurement must have been the proximate cause of the donor's death. Because these organ donors could only have been prisoners, our findings strongly suggest that physicians in the People's Republic of China have participated in executions by organ removal. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #14 You win a 🍪, Angstrom! Jigsaw Man, it's in one of Ellison's 'Dangerous Visions' collections. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-04-06 15:10 |
| #13 Didn't Larry Niven write a short story about this decades ago? |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2022-04-06 15:02 |
| #12 "He died of excessive discrimination." I can live with that. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-06 14:28 |
| #11 Now, you're just being picky! |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-04-06 14:17 |
| #10 Sorry. If it comes down to a muz pancreas, I'm ready to meet my Maker. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-06 14:16 |
| #9 can hope for is a way of creating culture bodies that don't have brains. No brain, no consciousness, no soul. Ha! Mohammed's already done it for us. Great man. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-04-06 14:12 |
| #8 The best we can hope for is a way of creating culture bodies that don't have brains. See Gaza. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-06 14:00 |
| #7 There may never be a more practical way to culture organs for transplant than in a human body. The best we can hope for is a way of creating culture bodies that don't have brains. No brain, no consciousness, no soul. Ideally it can be done in vitro without growing a whole body. One can hope. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-06 13:29 |
| #6 Totally support it. As long as it doesn't start cutting up innocent people just because they're a match for the rich and suddenly organ challenged. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-04-06 13:13 |
| #5 donor is both dead and formally pronounced so neither of which would be a problem in the Middle Kingdom |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-04-06 10:01 |
| #4 /\ The utterances of an honest man. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-04-06 09:17 |
| #3 I'm too old to care where I came from. Mainly working on where I might be going. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-06 09:13 |
| #2 That is why I won’t be doing 23 and Me soon. I might be a match for somebody powerful. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-04-06 09:09 |
| #1 As foreseen. Coming to a 'social credit' society near you. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-04-06 07:13 |