Webinar #136 Dr Trevor Stammers - Organs from the dead

Recorded on 26 January 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Trevor Stammers. Rates for deceased donations greatly vary across the world but organ transplantation heavily depends on them and virtually exclusively so for vital organs such as the heart. But this raises many ethical questions about the nature of death. Can the dead be harmed? Who should give consent for donation when the wishes of the deceased are unclear? Should the 'dead donor rule' be abandoned as some suggest? These and other questions will be explored from a Christian perspective. Dr Trevor Stammers is Editor of The New Bioethics journal. He was formerly Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Law at St Mary's University, UK, and was a family doctor for 27 years before going into academia. His latest book on the ethics of organ donation (written with Calum MacKellar) is The Ethics of Generating Posthumans.