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Nuffield Council on Bioethics
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Ethical Issues in Organ and Tissue Donation
This resource, designed for Key Stage Four, provides an introduction to organ and tissue donation, looks at different levels of intervention to encourage people to donate, and explores the meaning of ethical values that are often used in the context of donation. It also includes case studies and links to other resources for further discussion.
The resource consists of the following:
Introduction
An introduction to the resources and a brief overview of how donation works in the UK.
Curriculum links
Suggested links to the curriculum for Key Stage Four for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and Secondary Three for Scotland.
What can be donated?
Introduction to different types of donation and an exercise on planning a campaign to encourage donors.
Ethical values in donation
An exercise on the meaning of ethical terms often used in the context of donation.
How do we decide what should be done to meet demand?
Looks at different forms of interventions to encourage donation and includes a ranking exercise using examples of such interventions. There is also a teachers' guide to accompany this.
Case study: Organ donor status on Facebook
Discussion questions about the 'organ donor' status on Facebook and issues raised by online debate about organ donation.
Case study: Living donation
Includes questions for discussion about a young altruistic donor and the implications of his decision to donate for his friends and family.
Other resources
Includes questions commonly raised about donation and links to news articles and other resources that can be used as background to discussion about them.
This set of materials is based on the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' report Human bodies: donation for medicine and research (2011) which considers the ethical acceptability of various ways of encouraging people to donate for the treatment of others and for medical research.
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Introduction 86.06 KB
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What can be donated? 237.51 KB
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Ethical values in donation 60.58 KB
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Case study: Living donation 81.23 KB
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Other resources 66.69 KB
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Other resources 66.69 KB
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