Despite starting slowly with some academic jargon about altruism and people's motivations to donate organs, the book quickly takes a right turn and gets interes

Offers a collection of stories of how organ transplantation has affected living donors, family members of deceased donors, and transplant recipients, recounting

Rates of organ donation lag far behind the increasing need. At the start of 2006, more than 90,000 people were waiting to receive a solid organ (kidney, liver,

This ground-breaking book is a valuable addition to the end-of-life, palliative and bereavement care literature

In response to persistent donor organ shortages, organs from marginal donors, such as expanded criteria donors (ECD) and donation after cardiac death (DCD) dono