Raising the Dead

Raising the Dead
Author: Ronald Munson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2002-01-17
Genre: 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.

Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs

Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs
Author: T. M. Wilkinson
Publisher: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2011-11-24
Genre: 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.

Transplantation Ethics

Transplantation Ethics
Author: Robert M. Veatch
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2015-01-22
Genre: 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.

Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation

Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation
Author: Rebecca A. Greenberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2016-05-25
Genre: 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.

The Ethics of Organ Transplantation

The Ethics of Organ Transplantation
Author: Steven J. Jensen
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011-09
Genre: 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.

The Ethics of Organ Transplants

The Ethics of Organ Transplants
Author: Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1998
Genre: 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.

Organ Donation

Organ Donation
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2006-09-24
Genre: 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.

Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation

Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation
Author: Franklin G. Miller
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012
Genre: 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.

Careless Thought Costs Lives

Careless Thought Costs Lives
Author: Janet Radcliffe Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-10-24
Genre: 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.

Organ Transplants and Ethics

Organ Transplants and Ethics
Author: David Lamb
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2020-06
Genre:
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.