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Alexander Morgan Capron is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their primary research focus lies within the field of medicine, with notable contributions in several subfields including public health, environmental and occupational health, surgery, reproductive medicine, physiology, and transplantation.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as organ donation and transplantation, reproductive health and technologies, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, biomedical ethics and regulation, palliative care and end-of-life issues, transplantation methods and outcomes, and renal transplantation outcomes and treatments.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Expanding controlled donation after the circulatory determination of death: statement from an international collaborative, 2021, Intensive Care Medicine
  • Normothermic regional perfusion and US legal standards for determining death are not aligned, 2022, American Journal of Transplantation
  • Voucher-Based Kidney Donation and Redemption for Future Transplant, 2021, JAMA Surgery
  • Knowledge gaps in heart and lung donation after the circulatory determination of death: Report of a workshop of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 2024, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • Neither Ethical nor Prudent: Why Not to Choose Normothermic Regional Perfusion, 2024, The Hastings Center Report

Frequent co-authors in their research include James L. Bernat, Francis L. Delmonico, Timothy L. Pruett, Alexandra K. Glazier, and Jeffrey L. Veale.

Publication venues where their work appears regularly are Transplantation, The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics, Intensive Care Medicine, American Journal of Transplantation, and The Hastings Center Report.

Best Publications

  • Experimentation with Human Beings: The Authority of the Investigator, Subject, Professions, and State in the Human Experimentation Process

    Jay Katz;Alexander Morgan Capron;Eleanor Swift Glass

  • Experimentation with Human Beings

    Jay Katz;Alexander Morgan Capron;Eleanor Swift Glass

  • Statutory Definition of the Standards for Determining Human Death: An Appraisal and a Proposal

    Alexander Morgan Capron;Leon R. Kass

  • Informed consent in catastrophic disease research and treatment.

    Alexander Morgan Capron

  • The circulatory-respiratory determination of death in organ donation.

    James L. Bernat;Alexander M. Capron;Thomas P. Bleck;Sandralee Blosser

  • Organ trafficking and transplant tourism and commercialism : the declaration of Istanbul

    Mustafa Al-Mousawi;Ali Abdulkareem Alobaidli;Mona Nasir Al-Rukhaimi;Alireza Bagheri

  • International guideline development for the determination of death

    Sam D. Shemie;Laura Hornby;Andrew Baker;Jeanne Teitelbaum

  • Tort liability in genetic counseling.

    Alexander Morgan Capron

  • Brain death--well settled yet still unresolved.

    Alexander Morgan Capron

  • Organ trafficking and transplant tourism: the role of global professional ethical standards-the 2008 Declaration of Istanbul.

    Gabriel M. Danovitch;Jeremy Chapman;Alexander M. Capron;Adeera Levin

  • The use of anencephalic infants as organ sources. A critique.

    D A Shewmon;A M Capron;W J Peacock;B L Schulman

  • Protection of research subjects: do special rules apply in epidemiology?

    Alexander Morgan Capron

  • Attitudes Toward Risk and Informed Consent for Research on Medical Practices: A Cross-sectional Survey.

    Mildred K. Cho;David Magnus;Melissa Constantine;Sandra S oo Jin Lee

  • Expanding controlled donation after the circulatory determination of death: statement from an international collaborative.

    Beatriz Domínguez-Gil;Nancy Ascher;Alexander M. Capron;Dale Gardiner

  • Anencephalic donors: separate the dead from the dying.

    Alexander Morgan Capron

  • Catastrophic Diseases: Who Decides What?

    Jay Katz;Alexander Morgan Capron

  • Ethical and human-rights issues in research on mental disorders that may affect decision-making capacity.

    Alexander Morgan Capron

  • Which ills to bear?: reevaluating the "threat" of modern genetics.

    Alexander Morgan Capron

  • Living and Deceased Organ Donation Should Be Financially Neutral Acts

    Francis L. Delmonico;Dominique C. Martin;Beatriz Domínguez-Gil;Elmi W. Muller

  • Medical Care at the End of Life: The Interaction of Economics and Ethics

    and A A Scitovsky;A M Capron

  • Law and Bioethics

    Alexander Morgan Capron;Vicki Michel

  • Choosing family law over contract law as a paradigm for surrogate motherhood.

    A.M. Capron;M.J. Radin

  • Containing health care costs: ethical and legal implications of changes in the methods of paying physicians.

    Alexander Morgan Capron;Daniel W Brock;Eric J Cassell

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin S. Wilfond
Benjamin S. Wilfond University of Washington
Mildred K. Cho
Mildred K. Cho Stanford University
Sharon E. Straus
Sharon E. Straus University of Toronto
Ruth R. Faden
Ruth R. Faden Johns Hopkins University
Ellen Wright Clayton
Ellen Wright Clayton Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan Hastings Center
Arno G. Motulsky
Arno G. Motulsky University of Washington
Warwick J. Peacock
Warwick J. Peacock University of California, Los Angeles
Marion Danis
Marion Danis National Institutes of Health

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