The Kidney Sellers

Author : Sigrid Fry-Revere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611635126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kidney Sellers written by Sigrid Fry-Revere and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely does an adventure story carry such social significance as in this groundbreaking ethnographic research book. Dr. Fry-Revere's exploration of the medical ethics of compensating organ donors takes us deep inside Iranian culture to provide insight and understanding into how Iran has solved its kidney shortage. The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran addresses the question: How it is possible that in Iran there is a waiting list to be a donor, while in the United States hundreds of thousands of people have died for lack of a kidney? Dr. Fry-Revere is the first Westerner ever to witness firsthand Iran's organ procurement system. She shares what she discovered in this fascinating book: part diary of living in a dangerous country, part ethnographic essay, and part tale of people working together to overcome death and financial ruin. The Kidney Sellers is a shocking, thought-provoking true story.

Author : Robert W. Steiner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140202276X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educating, Evaluating, and Selecting Living Kidney Donors written by Robert W. Steiner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethical rational, facts, and center techniques for choosing kidney donors all in one volume. This is the first book of its kind, devoted solely to preoperative issues for living kidney donors and those who counsel them. The eight chapters are devoted to vital areas that are comprehensively addressed by experienced professionals. The book presents a unified ethical and factual approach that is essential for all transplant centers to understand. It is a readable and understandable ethical foundation for living kidney donation that is free of jargon. It includes balanced, hard to find factual summaries that are essential for acceptable kidney donor counseling. As transplant centers increasingly turn to living kidney donors, this book is an essential step forward in the field. The book will appeal to transplant physicians and surgeons, transplant coordinators and social workers, nephrologists who have patients on dialysis or who evaluate potential living kidney donors and to potential living kidney donors and their recipients. As a practical application of medical ethics to an important field, it will be of interest to medical ethicists as well.

Author : Mark J. Cherry
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589013557
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kidney for Sale by Owner written by Mark J. Cherry and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded? Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Kidney for Sale by Owner, now with a new preface, boldly deconstructs the roadblocks that are standing in the way of restoring health to thousands of people. Author and bioethicist Mark Cherry reasserts the case that health care could be improved and lives saved by introducing a regulated transplant organs market rather than by well-meant, but misguided, prohibitions.

Author : James Stacey Taylor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351898167
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stakes and Kidneys written by James Stacey Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that the numbers of organs that become available each year for transplantation fall far short of the numbers that are actually required. In this boldly argued book James Stacey Taylor contends that, given both this shortage and the desperate poverty that some people endure, it is morally imperative that the current methods of organ procurement be supplemented by a legal, regulated market for human transplant organs purchased from live vendors. Taylor pays particular attention to outlining the implications that recognizing the moral legitimacy of these market transactions in human body parts and reproductive capacities have for public policy.

Author : Jonas Wadström
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781841843162
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Donor Kidney Transplantation written by Jonas Wadström and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living donor kidney (LDK) transplantation has become the definitive approach to the treatment of end-stage renal failure, providing a better quality of life and the best opportunity for survival when compared with dialysis or transplantation from a deceased donor. A timely compendium of the modern day practice of LDK transplantation from a group of outstanding international experts, this text explores a number of controversial aspects of this innovative new technique. Discussing in detail the current situation, the authors also focus on the responsibility of the medical community to the live kidney donor as a patient, and the potential for complacency regarding donor risk. Emphasizing the ethical principles that must dictate medical practice in LDK transplantation for the foreseeable future - voluntarism, informed consent and medical follow-up - this book comprehensively records the best practices currently available.

Author : Ari Sytner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998198408
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kidney Donor's Journey written by Ari Sytner and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katrina A. Bramstedt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442211172
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organ Donor Experience written by Katrina A. Bramstedt and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a current US need of over 115,000 organs one would think that Good Samaritan donors would be welcomed with open arms by transplant centers and society in general; however, this is often not the case. Tell someone that you have donated an organ to a stranger and the reaction is likely to be one of astonishment and disbelief. Some doctors even consider people who offer their organs to strangers crazy. Why would anyone do that? Who are these people so committed to helping others-strangers-that they would undergo surgery, discomfort, and disruption of their lives? This book profiles donors who have offered their organs to strangers and helps readers understand the meanings behind their donations. For the donor, altruism should always be the primary motivation, though other motivations often come into play. Often, there are also subconscious reasons for performing this great act of kindness. The Organ Donor Experience gives living anonymous organ donors of kidneys, liver lobes, and lung lobes the opportunity to tell their stories as they understand them, and for others to understand the motivations and the meaning of true altruism.

Author : Andrew Michael Flescher
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626165440
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organ Shortage Crisis in America written by Andrew Michael Flescher and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Organ Shortage Crisis in America -- Motivations for Giving, Especially of Precious Goods -- Civic Duty -- A Word about the Audience and Purpose of This Book -- Organization -- Notes -- 1. The Case for Legalizing the Sale of Organs -- The Market as a Solution, If Not a Virtue -- Costs and Equity -- The "Tyranny of the Gift -- Financial Incentives, Libertarianism, and the Black Market -- The Unique Case of Iran -- A Legal, Regulated Market for Organ Trade -- Notes -- 2. Ethical Concerns with Legalizing the Sale of Organs -- The Utility of Utility -- Selling Organs and the Impoverished -- Selling Organs and Public Safety -- Commodification -- Moving from Ethical to Pragmatic Considerations -- Notes -- 3. Organ Donation, Financial Motivation, and Civic Duty -- Paying It Forward -- Wolfenschiessen, Switzerland -- How Buying a Good Changes a Good -- The Difference between Lump-Sum Incentives and Compensatory Measures -- Civic Duty -- Notes -- 4. Living Donors and the Confluence of Altruism and Self-Regard -- Complex Human Motivations and the Myth of Unmotivated Altruism -- Living Donors and Living Donor Advocacy -- The Health Benefits of Living Donation -- Reflections of a Living Donor Advocate -- Notes -- 5. Making Altruism Practical -- Reducing Disincentives and Opening Doors to Virtue -- Paired Exchanges and Donor Chains -- Creating Incentives to Opt In -- Lost Wages and Travel Expenses -- Publicly Acknowledging Living Donors -- Nonmonetary Valuable, Comparable Goods -- Helping Virtue Along -- Notes -- Conclusion: Two to Four Hours of Your Life -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- About the Author

Author : Carol Offen
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098369835
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insider's Guide to Living Kidney Donation written by Carol Offen and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Insider's Guide to Living Kidney Donation: Everything You Need to Know If You Give (or Get) the Greatest Gift" offers nontechnical information, practical advice, and the multifaceted guidance that potential and past donors and kidney patients need. The book explains what to expect before and after the donation and helps recipients deal with the often-neglected, nonmedical aspects of their experience. It features the authors' own candid, moving accounts as a donor and a recipient, along with first-person stories of others who have been involved in this life-changing process.

Author : Adnan Sharif
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031095200
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Kidney Donation written by Adnan Sharif and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a guide to the principles and practice of living kidney donation. Concise and well-structured chapters discuss the ethics of living kidney donation, medical evaluation of kidney donors, donor nephrectomy surgery, and long-term outcomes of transplantation, along with broader medical issues related to cardiology, surgery, and anesthesia. Living Kidney Donation: A Practical Guide aims to give readers the essential information required for undertaking living kidney donation and is relevant to nephrologists, transplant surgeons, and healthcare professionals working in renal transplantation.