Organ Transplants And Ethics

Author : Steven J. Jensen
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813218748
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Organ Transplantation written by Steven J. Jensen and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367491512
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organ Transplants and Ethics written by David Lamb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rebecca A. Greenberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319291858
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation written by Rebecca A. Greenberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : T. M. Wilkinson
Publisher : Issues in Biomedical Ethics
ISBN 13 : 0199607869
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs written by T. M. Wilkinson and published by Issues in Biomedical Ethics. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert M. Veatch
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626161690
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transplantation Ethics written by Robert M. Veatch and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100006669X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organ Transplants and Ethics written by David Lamb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher : Contemporary Issues
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Organ Transplants written by Arthur L. Caplan and published by Contemporary Issues. This book was released on 1998 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0309164648
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organ Donation written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Wayne N. Shelton
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780762307647
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Organ Transplantation written by Wayne N. Shelton and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ethics of Organ Transplantation".

Author : Ronald Munson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195350952
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raising the Dead written by Ronald Munson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting for them. And what distinguishes these two groups has become the source of one of our thorniest ethical questions. In Raising the Dead, Ronald Munson offers a vivid, often wrenchingly dramatic account of how transplants are performed, how we decide who receives them, and how we engage the entire range of tough issues that arise because of them. Each chapter begins with a detailed account of a specific case--Mickey Mantle's controversial liver transplant, for example--followed by careful analysis of its surrounding ethical questions (the charges that Mantle received special treatment because he was a celebrity, the larger problems involving how organs are allocated, and whether alcoholics should have an equal claim on donor livers). In approaching transplant ethics through specific cases, Munson reminds us of the complex personal and emotional dimension that underlies such issues. The book also ranges beyond our present capabilities to explore the future possibilities in xenotransplantation (transplanting animal organs into humans) and stem cell technology that would allow doctors to grow new organs from the patient's own cells. Based on extensive scientific research, but written with a novelist's eye for the human condition, Raising the Dead shows readers the reality of organ transplantation now, the possibility of what it may become, and how we might respond to the ethical challenges it forces us to confront.