ABSTRACT
Chapter 9 focuses on living organ donors and discusses a case from Nashville, USA, where parents had to decide whether to donate parts of their lungs to their sick child. The chapter specifically addresses the relation between voluntariness and willingness, the significance of authenticity, and the challenges that arise when donors are pressured by their families or other third parties. Discussing consent in the context of living organ donation adds further support to ICCJ’s rejection of voluntariness as a psychological concept and confirms its most controversial feature, namely the focus on the consent-receiver, even when third parties exert influences on the consent-giver. Moreover, addressing voluntary consent in this context is particularly important because, from the perspective of the donor, this area concerns neither treatment nor research, but rather a third class of medical procedure which this book has not considered before. Hence, understanding voluntariness in this area is required to complete a comprehensive picture of the practical challenges to the voluntariness of consent.
