Author : Ronald Munson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0195132998
With over 25,000 American receiving transplants annually, this is a timely and dramatic account of organ transplants and the ethical and social issues they force society to confront.
Author : Robert M. Veatch
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1626161690
Although the history of organ transplant has its roots in ancient Christian mythology, it is only in the past fifty years that body parts from a dead person have successfully been procured and transplanted into a living person. After fourteen years, the three main issues that Robert Veatch first outlined in his seminal study Transplantation Ethics still remain: deciding when human beings are dead; deciding when it is ethical to procure organs; and deciding how to allocate organs, once procured. However, much has changed. Enormous strides have been made in immunosuppression. Alternatives to the donation model are debated much more openly—living donors are used more widely and hand and face transplants have become more common, raising issues of personal identity. In this second edition of Transplantation Ethics, coauthored by Lainie F. Ross, transplant professionals and advocates will find a comprehensive update of this critical work on transplantation policies.
Author : T. M. Wilkinson
Publisher : Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199607869
Transplantation is a medically successful and cost-effective way to treat people whose organs have failed--but not enough organs are available to meet demand. T. M. Wilkinson explores the major ethical problems raised by policies for acquiring organs. Key topics include the rights of the dead, the role of the family, and the sale of organs.
Author : Rebecca A. Greenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319291858
This book offers a theoretical and practical overview of the specific ethical and legal issues in pediatric organ transplantation. Written by a team of leading experts, Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation addresses those difficult ethical questions concerning clinical, organizational, legal and policy issues including donor, recipient and allocation issues. Challenging topics, including children as donors, donation after cardiac death, misattributed paternity, familial conflicts of interest, developmental disability as a listing criteria, small bowel transplant, and considerations in navigating the media are discussed. It serves as a fundamental handbook and resource for pediatricians, transplant health care professionals, trainees, graduate students, scholars, practitioners of bioethics and health policy makers.
Author : Steven J. Jensen
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0813218748
These questions and others are thoughtfully probed in this collection of essays, which features articles from theologians, philosophers, physicians, biomedical ethicists, and an attorney.
Author : Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN :
With more than 30 of the most important, influential, and up-to-date articles from leaders in ethics, medicine, philosophy, law, and politics, "The Ethics of Organ Transplants" examines the numerous and tangled issues that surround organ procurement and distribution.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2006-09-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 030910114X
Rates of organ donation lag far behind the increasing need. At the start of 2006, more than 90,000 people were waiting to receive a solid organ (kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, heart, or intestine). Organ Donation examines a wide range of proposals to increase organ donation, including policies that presume consent for donation as well as the use of financial incentives such as direct payments, coverage of funeral expenses, and charitable contributions. This book urges federal agencies, nonprofit groups, and others to boost opportunities for people to record their decisions to donate, strengthen efforts to educate the public about the benefits of organ donation, and continue to improve donation systems. Organ Donation also supports initiatives to increase donations from people whose deaths are the result of irreversible cardiac failure. This book emphasizes that all members of society have a stake in an adequate supply of organs for patients in need, because each individual is a potential recipient as well as a potential donor.
Author : Franklin G. Miller
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 019973917X
This book challenges conventional medical ethics by exposing the inconsistency between the reality of end-of-life practices and established ethical justifications of them.
Author : Janet Radcliffe Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199678774
Organ transplantation saves lives, yet thousands die through lack of organs. What lies behind our failure to donate? Janet Radcliffe Richards casts a sharp critical eye on the moral arguments, forcing us to confront the logic and implications of our own position. A book for everyone concerned with clear thinking on moral issues.
Author : David Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2020-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780367491512
Originally published in 1990, this study of the moral problems bound up with transplant therapy addresses a finely balanced distinction between ethical issues relating to its experimental nature on the one hand and those which arise when transplantation is routine on the other. Among the issues examined are proposals for routine cadaveric harvesting, criteria for organ and tissue procurement from living donors, foetuses, non-human animals and current ethical problems with artificial implants. Written as a contribution to practical philosophy, this book will interest ethicists and health care professionals.
