On the Ethics of Organ Transplantation: A Catholic Perspective. The report of a working party

This report is the work of an international group of clinicians, philosophers, and theologians convened by the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford. Most of the drafting was done by Prof David Albert Jones and Prof Nicholas Tonti-Filippini with further comments, suggestions, and corrections from other working group members. The aim of the report is to set out the ethical requirements which must be met if transplant medicine is to achieve its true end, and merit the support of Catholics and, more generally, of men and women of good will. It also addresses some new concerns which have arisen, within the Church and within society, about the ethical practice of transplantation, and in particular the criteria for diagnosing death and the issue of presumed consent.