Sydney Selwyn Winner 2023
Speaker: Dr Richard Armitage
Lecture title: Should your GP help you give one of your kidneys to a stranger?

Thousands of patients in the UK with end-stage renal disease are in need a donor kidney. Despite this, only 40-80 people each year choose to donate one of their kidneys to a stranger.

The decision of Nottingham GP Dr Richard Armitage to become a non-altruistic kidney donor – which he became in November 2022 – was not influenced by his own GP. But, would if be ethically problematic if it had been?

In this Sydney Selwyn Lecture, Dr Armitage explores the ethical permissibility of GPs helping their healthy adult patients give one of their kidneys to a stranger in order to address the shortage of donor kidneys.

The lecture  is attached to our diploma course in the Philosophy of Medicine. – Click here more details on our courses

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