The Ethics of Organ Transplants (Contemporary Issues) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1573922242 ISBN 13: 9781573922241

Verlag: Prometheus Books, 1999

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No one argues the need for transplants. The debate centers on how to satisfy the great need for healthy organs. Advances in medical technology and science have made organ procurement, or the search and transfer of organs and tissue from one body to another, a very important issue. Since the demand for healthy organs far exceeds the supply, many questions enter this debate, blending medicine with politics, ethics, research, religion, and other concerns. How are we to meet the need? Can we do so and still respect personal ethics and religious convictions? Can organs be obtained without turning medical emergencies into free-market enterprise? Should people be permitted to sell their organs? Should animals be sacrificed to save the lives of humans? Could cloning be considered as a future source of organs?

With more than thirty 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.

Co-edited by Dr. Arthur L. Caplan, a world recognized scholar in bioethics and health policy, this volume divides the issue into five related areas: (1) sources of organs for transplantation and various methods of transplants, including living donations, fetal tissue use, defining brain death, and nonhuman organ transfer; (2) policy, including presumed consent, required requests, and mandated choice to relieve the shortage problem; (3) the ethics of selling organs, the effect on supply and use of organs, making organ procurement a global effort; (4) case histories and questions on who should (not) receive transplants; and (5) the value

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Arthur L. Caplan, an internationally recognized authority on bioethics, is trustee professor and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Health System as well as author of a number of books, including Am I My Brother's Keeper? and Due Consideration.

Daniel H. Coelho writes frequently on bioethics and is a male Otolaryngologist.

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• Verlag: Prometheus Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1573922242
• ISBN 13: 9781573922241
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Caplan Arthur L., Coelho Daniel H.