What Organ Donors Are Never Told: The Lack of Informed Consent in Organ Procurment Practices

By Christopher W. Bogosh RN-BC

This book aims to educate prospective and registered organ donors, in lay terms, about issues they may not be aware of regarding organ procurement practices, so that an informed decision to become an organ donor can be made. Chapter One explores the concept of informed consent and the obligation of medical professionals to provide accurate information to create an advance medical directive, which includes the option of organ donation. The next chapter, "Organ Donation after the Determination of Death," briefly considers the beginnings of organ harvesting and moves on to study in greater depth the legal definition of death in the United States today, which is usually not the way people understand death to be. Chapter Three considers the fallacy of treating "brain death" as death, and how the brain is just one organ among many organs in the human body that make us human beings. The final chapter explores the beginning of the redefinition of death in America and its connection to the "life unworthy of life" polices and propaganda during the early to mid twentieth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G565H7P3
• ISBN13: 9798268129052
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"