Chapter  16: The Allocation of Resources: Scarcity and Triage

Fetal (Stem) Cells: 

http://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/stemcells/ - Embryonic Stem Cell Research at UW-Madison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell - Stem Cells

http://www.stemnews.com/ - Today’s Stem Cell Research

http://www.abortionessay.com/files/willke.html - “I am Pro Life and Oppose Stem Cell Research” by J.C. Willke, M.D.

http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/bioethic/adult701.htm - US Catholic Bishop’s Pro-Life Activities

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/219669_stemcellrebut12.html?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=1 – Support for Embryonic Stem Cell Research

http://www.catholicapologetics.info/morality/medicalethics/cell.htm - The Immorality of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

http://www.isscr.org/ - International Society for Stem Cell Research

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/351/17/1789 - Embryonic Stem-Cell Research — The Case for Federal Funding by Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D.

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=596321&tr=y&auid=853965 – Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

http://www.nationalprolifecenter.org/ - National Pro-Life Action Center

http://www.lifenews.com/ - Lifenews.com

Organ Donation: 

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/492097 - Brokering Organ Donations on the Internet Raise Ethical Issues

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/transplant/html/ethics.html - Kidney Transplantation: Past, Present, and Future

http://www.wf-f.org/02-3-OrganDonation.html - Ethical Implications of Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation

http://www.wma.net/e/policy/wma.htm - World Medical Association Statement on Human Organ & Tissue Donation and Transplantation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/science/ethical/organs.htm - Organ Demand Forces Dilemmas by Rick Weiss.

http://www.che.org/ethics/topics.php?id=87- Catholic Health East

http://www.facs.org/education/ethics/childresslect.html - The Gift of Life: Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation by James F. Childress, PhD.

http://newsroom.hrsa.gov/Speeches/OrganOhio.htm - Remarks: Psychiatric, Psychosocial and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/lwsch/journals/bclawr/41_2/05_FMS.htm - Organ Harvests from the Legally Incompetent: A Case Against Impelled Altruism

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/5/444 - The Ethics of Organ Donation by Living Donors by Robert D. Truog, MD.

http://www.australasianbioethics.org/Newsletters/016-n2001-12-07.html#organ – Organ Donation: American Doctors Debate Payment

http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/12/05/1070351793766.html - Furore over Proposed Live Organ Market by Ruth Pollard

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