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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1996. Xenotransplantation: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5365.
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Xenotransplantation

Science, Ethics, and Public Policy

Committee on Xenograft Transplantation: Ethical Issues and Public Policy

Division of Health Sciences Policy

Division of Health Care Services

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1996

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1996. Xenotransplantation: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5365.
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

The Institute of Medicine was chartered in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to enlist distinguished members of the appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. In this, the Institute acts under both the Academy’s 1863 congressional charter responsibility to be an adviser to the federal government and its own initiative in identifying issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Kenneth I. Shine is president of the Institute of Medicine.

Support for this project was provided by The Greenwall Foundation, the Food and Drug Administration (Award No. FDA D66112 00 95 TD 00), the Health Resources and Services Administration (Award No. 103HR941095P000-000), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Award No. 0009564092). Funds were provided by the National Institutes of Health through the National Cancer Institute (Award No. 263-MQ-436187), the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (Award No. 263-MK-521072) the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (Award No. 263-FJ-520288), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Award No. N01-OD-4-2139). Additional funds were provided by the U.S. Department of Defense (Award No. N00014-95-1-0920), the Charles River Laboratories, the W.R. Grace and Company-Connecticut, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional support for dissemination of this report was provided by The Greenwall Foundation. The views presented in this report are those of the Committee on Xenograft Transplantation and are not necessarily those of the funding organizations.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1996. Xenotransplantation: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5365.
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COMMITTEE ON XENOGRAFT TRANSPLANTATION: ETHICAL ISSUES AND PUBLIC POLICY

NORMAN G. LEVINSKY (Chair),* Wade Professor and Chairman,

Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center

NANCY L. ASCHER, Chief,

Liver and Kidney Transplant Services, University of California, San Francisco

ROBERT A. BURT,* Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law,

Yale University Law School

CLIVE O. CALLENDER, Professor and Chairman,

Department of Surgery, and

Director,

Transplant Center, Howard University Medical College

ROGER EVANS, Head,

Section of Health Services Evaluation, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

DENISE FAUSTMAN, Director,

Immunobiology Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School

RENEE C. FOX, * Annenberg Professor of Social Sciences,

Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

JOAN K. LUNNEY, Research Leader,

The Immunology and Disease Resistance Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland

MARIAN G. MICHAELS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery,

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

STEPHEN MORSE, Assistant Professor of Virology,

The Rockefeller University

KEITH REEMTSMA, Professor of Surgery,

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York

DAVID ROTHMAN, Professor of Social Medicine and Director,

Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

HAROLD Y. VANDERPOOL, Professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine,

Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

*  

Member, Institute of Medicine.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1996. Xenotransplantation: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5365.
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Staff

VALERIE P. SETLOW, Director,

Division of Health Sciences Policy

CONSTANCE PECHURA, Co-Study Director, Director,

Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health

RALPH DELL, Co-Study Director, Professor of Pediatrics,

College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

YVETTE BENJAMIN, Research Associate

KATHLEEN LOHR, Director,

Division of Health Care Services (through February 1996)

CLYDE BEHNEY, Director,

Division of Health Care Services (as of February 1996)

LINDA A. DEPUGH, Administrative Assistant

MARY J. BALL, Project Assistant

NANCY DIENER, Financial Associate

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Xenotransplantation involves the transplantation of cells, tissues, and whole organs from one species to another. Interest in animal-to-human xenotransplants has been spurred by the continuing shortage of donated human organs and by advances in knowledge concerning the biology of organ and tissue rejection. The scientific advances and promise, however, raise complex questions that must be addressed.

This book considers the scientific and medical feasibility of xenotransplantation and explores the ethical and public policy issues surrounding the possibility of renewed clinical trials. The volume focuses on the science base of xenotransplantation, public health risks of infectious disease transmission, and ethical and public policy issues, including the views of patients and their families.

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