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The Use of Executed Prisoners as a Source of Organ Transplants in China Must Stop

Strategies to influence positive change in organ donation practice in China by the international transplant community are discussed. They include an absolutist policy whereby no clinical data from China is deemed acceptable until unacceptable donation practices end, and an incremental policy whereby clinical data is carefully evaluated for acceptability. The relative advantages and drawbacks of these strategies are discussed together with some practical suggestions for response available to individuals and the transplant community.

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Regarding Heart Transplantation from the Halachic Point of View A. Y. Unterman The Problem of Heart Transplantation Menachem Kasher Kidney Replacement and Halacha Y. Levi Cornea Transplantation from Deceased Donors Moshe Steinberg

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