Children as Tissue Donors: Regulatory Protection, Medical Ethics, and Practice

This book examines the position of children who provide tissue to potentially save the life of another. It questions whether child donors of all ages have been treated appropriately and whether they are sufficiently protected in acting as tissue donors, and ultimately considers whether a new regulatory response is needed to benefit donor children.

The book couples a legal exposition of the donor child’s position with the medico-ethical reality of clinical practice. In recent years, a grow...