02 September 2013

LANCET: London Dr.W.FRANKLAND Allergist @ 101y

Bill Frankland: active allergist at 101 Richard Lane Bill Frankland celebrated his 101st birthday earlier this year, and is still active in academic research, after nearly 70 years as a leading allergist. “I keep myself busy”, he says cheerfully, when we meet at his mews apartment in central London. “I am author or co-author of three papers out at the moment, and they will be published later this year. ”http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2961821-8/fulltext?elsca1=ETOC-LANCET&elsca2=email&elsca3=E24A35F

Australia New South Wales: Organs as inheritable property

Organs as inheritable property? J Med Ethics Published online 30 August 2013 Authors: Teck Chuan Voo, Soren Holm “…This paper argues that organs should be inheritable if they were to be socially and legally recognised as tradable property. It also seeks to contribute to the idea of organs as inheritable property by providing a defence of a default position of the family of a dead person as the inheritors of transplantable organs. In the course of discussion, various succession rules for organs—which might exclude the right to destroy and waste transplantable organs—will be suggested. Lastly, we consider some objections to organs as inheritable. Our intention in this paper is to provoke further thought on whether ownership of one’s organs should be assimilated to property ownership…” - See more at: http://ehln.org/?p=31030#sthash.KHJpozeN.dpuf

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