Focus online: The Laws of the Heart
By Victoria Leenders-Cheng.
Enough with the ubiquitous purple and pink hearts of
Valentine鈥檚 Day.
M茅lanie Mader wants to talk about the
real thing, that four-chambered circulatory organ the size of a
fist, composed of striated muscle tissue and responsible for
pumping blood through our vessels and veins.
Mader, the newest addition to the Faculty of Law鈥檚 Research Group on Health and Law, recently completed her PhD at the University of Neuch芒tel in Switzerland with a dissertation focusing on the complex problem of organ shortages and organ donation.*
鈥淭he most common organs that are transplanted today are the kidney, heart, liver, and liver,鈥� Mader said, adding that the organ shortage is an urgent issue that she considers a public health problem.