Brain donation for schizophrenia research: gift, consent, and meaning. Issue 3 (1st June 2003)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boyes, M; Ward, P
• Is Part Of: Journal of medical ethics. Volume 29:Issue 3(2003)
• Page Start: 165
• Page End: 168
• Publication Date: 2003-06-01
• Subjects: brain donation -- consent -- neuroscience -- research schizophrenia; Medical ethics -- Periodicals; 174.2
• DOI: 10.1136/jme.29.3.165
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-6800

Abstract

Abstract : The Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders's (NISAD) " Gift of Hope " Tissue Donor Program is a volunteer programme for people who wish to donate their brain when they die for neuroscience research into schizophrenia. Organ donation for purposes of research differs from transplant donation in a number of ways, most notably the absence of a single recipient. Within a particular community, however, (people with schizophrenia and their carers) the single recipient is replaced by a sense of shared experience and preventing suffering in others. Donors have an investment in the research.