Answered By: Rebecca Sedam
Last Updated: Sep 13, 2023     Views: 679

Good news -- you will find a good selection of material on this topic through the Oakton Library.

BOOKS

You will find the following subject heading useful:

Organ Transplantation ethics

Follow these steps:

  • Connect to the Oakton Catalog (O.W.L.)
  • Type in the search terms shown above
  • Select the search button (magnifying glass icon) or press Enter

Since the relevance of a particular book may not be immediately apparent, close examination of your search results is important.  For example, click on the following title:


Territo, Leonard., and Rande. Matteson. The International Trafficking of Human Organs : A Multidisciplinary Perspective. CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis, 2019.

If you examine the "Description" section, you will find the chapters that best fit your research topic.

FACTS & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

  • Connect to the Oakton Library A-Z Databases at https://researchguides.oakton.edu/az.php
  • Select "Credo - All Subjects Search" from the "Popular Databases" category
  • Search for organ transplantation and ethics
  • NOTE: other useful search terms and phrases include organ trafficking and transplant tourism

ARTICLES

The Oakton Library has a wide range of online databases suitable for research on this topic.  We'll focus here on just one.

  • Connect to the Oakton Library A-Z Databases at https://researchguides.oakton.edu/az.php
  • Select "O"
  • Select "Opposing Viewpoints"
  • Use the "Browse Issues" feature
  • When the "Browse Issues" page opens up, you will find a link for Organ Donation and Transplantation. That page, in turn, will give you access to a collection of news articles, opinion pieces, journal articles, and statistics concerning issues such as organ procurement, brain death, and organ selling.

If you need additional help (such as coming up with a database search strategy) there are multiple ways to contact the Oakton librarians on our Ask a Librarian page.