| Description |
xvii, 427 p.: ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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 JACKET |
| Subject |
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| ISBN |
0878408126 |
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0878408118 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780878408115 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780878408122 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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