The AMA's Code of Medical Ethics' contains a large collection of opinions regarding organ donation and transplantation that continue to shape the ethics discussion surrounding these topics.

A physician argues against the practice of advertising private pleas for organ donation rather than individuals using the UNOS donor list system.

Major medical and ethical problems remain to be resolved before face transplantation surgery is attempted with human patients.

Alcoholics should not be subject to deprioritization on a liver transplant waiting list if the belief is held that alcoholism is a disease and not an issue of moral failure for which the patient should be blamed.

The genetic engineering of organ-donor animals to decrease the risk of human immune system rejection poses ethical and psychological challenges to the long-held boundary between humans and other animal species.