Introduction -- Definition and medical practice of organ transplantation -- Success rates -- Post-mortem donors -- Living donors -- Body concepts and personal identity -- Commodification and organ trade -- Xenotransplantation -- Further reading -- Case studies -- Case: Living kidney donation -- the right to refuse -- Case: Living liver donation and competent decision making -- Case: Parental living kidney donation -- Case: Living liver donation -- the right to refuse -- Case: Living organ donation -- legal limits to non-family related donations -- Case: Organ transplantation -- mentally incompetent recipients -- Case: Living organ transplantation: cross-national donors -- Case: Living organ donation -- legal restrictions on donorrecipient-relationship -- Case: Samaritan donation -- risk assessment and nonmaleficence -- Case: Samaritan donation -- domino-paired issue of justice -- Case: Living kidney donation -- psychological and cognitive restrictions of the donor -- Case: Living organ donation -- socio-economic relationship between donor and recipient -- Case: Living organ donation -- limits of donor autonomy -- Case: Living bone transplant -- informed consent for donation -- Case: Bone marrow transplantation -- mentally incompetent donor -- Case: Post-mortem organ donation -- cultural aspects of death and burial traditions -- Case: Brain death -- consent procedure -- Case: Post-mortem organ donation and religious conflicts I -- Case: Post-mortem organ donation and religious conflicts II -- follow the law or avoid a scandal? -- Case: Definition of death and cultural aspects -- family's role -- Case: Conscientious objection of physicians -- Case: Directed (post-mortem) donation -- role of preferences for allocation -- Case: Heart-lung-transplantation -- assessing high risks -- Case: Post-mortem organ donation -- parental consent -- Case: Xenotransplantation -- human trial and informed consent -- Case: Organ trade -- post-surgical follow-up treatment -- Case: Organ trade -- supporting medical tourism -- Case: Organ trade -- socio-economic dependency between donor and recipient -- Case: Organ traffic -- financial incentives for doctors -- Case: From the perspectives of the patient -- is there a right to buy a kidney from a stranger from another country? -- Movies as teaching material -- ethical issues in organ transplantation -- Table of movies -- List of Contributors.