Transplantation ethics
Robert M. Veatch (Author)
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2000
Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., ©2000
xvii, 427 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
9780878408115, 9780878408122, 0878408118, 0878408126
43569588
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
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