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020    0878408126 
020    0878408118 (cloth : alk. paper) 
020    9780878408115 (cloth : alk. paper) 
020    9780878408122 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
050 00 RD120.7|b.V43 2000 
100 1  Veatch, Robert M 
245 10 Transplantation ethics /|cRobert M. Veatch. 
260    Washington, D.C. :|bGeorgetown University Press,|c2000 
300    xvii, 427 p.:|bill. ;|c27 cm. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction : Religious and cultural perspectives on 
       organ transplantation -- An ethical framework -- pt. 1. 
       Defining death -- Brain death : welcome definition or     
       dangerous judgment? -- The definition of death : problems 
       for public policy -- The whole-brain-oriented concept of 
       death : an outmoded philosophical formulation -- The 
       impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death 
       -- The conscience clause : how much individual choice can 
       society tolerate in defining death? -- Crafting a new 
       definition of death law -- pt. 2. Procuring organs -- Gift
       or salvage : the two models of organ procurement -- The 
       myth of presumed consent : ethical problems in new organ 
       procurement strategies -- Required response : an  
       alternative to presumed consent -- Live-donor transplant :
       including the permanently unconscious and paired- and live
       -donor/cadaver exchanges -- Non-heart-beating cadaver 
       donors -- Report of the Anencephaly Task Force  of the 
       Washington Regional Transplant Consortium -- The role of 
       age in procurement : minors and the elderly as organ 
       sources -- Tainted organs : HIV-positive and other 
       controversial donors -- The ethics of xenografts -- pt. 
       3.Allocating organs -- Who empowers medical doctors to 
       make allocative decisions for dialysis and organ 
       transplantaion? -- A general theory of allocation --     
       Voluntary risks and allocation : does the alcoholic  
       deserve a new liver? -- Multiorgan, split-organ, and 
       repeat transplants -- The role of age in allocation -- The
       role of status : did Mickey Mantle get special treatment? 
       -- Urgency versus geography : the controversy between UNOS
       and Donna Shalala -- Directed donation of organs for    
       transplant : egalitarian and maximin approaches. 
520 1  "A medical ethicist who has been involved in the organ 
       transplant debate for many years, Robert M. Veatch 
       explores a variety of questions that continue to vex the  
       transplantation community, offering his own solutions in  
       many cases. Ranging from the most fundamental questions to
       recently emerging issues, Transplantation Ethics is the  
       first complete and systematic account of the ethical and 
       policy controversies surrounding organ transplants."--BOOK
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650  0 Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.|xMoral and 
       ethical aspects