Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation
Current Debates and International Perspectives
This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. International readings well-grounded in the latest developments in the life sciences are organized into systematic sections and engage with one another, offering complementary views. All core issues in the global ethical debate are covered: donating and procuring organs, allocating and receiving organs, as well as considering alternatives. Due to its systematic structure, the volume provides an excellent orientation for researchers, students, and practitioners alike to enable a deeper understanding of some of the most controversial issues in modern medicine.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Inhalt
Seiten 5 - 8 -
List of Abbreviations
Seiten 9 - 10 -
Exploring the Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation
Seiten 11 - 20 -
I. DONATION OF ORGANS AND TISSUE
1. Making Sense of Donation
Seiten 23 - 42 -
2. Defining Consent
Seiten 43 - 64 -
3. Nudging in Donation Policies
Seiten 65 - 80 -
4. Appealing to Trust in Donation Contexts
Seiten 81 - 100 -
II. HUMAN ORGAN SOURCES
5. Determining Brain Death
Seiten 103 - 116 -
6. Defining Death in Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death
Seiten 117 - 132 -
7. Deciding about Living Organ Donation
Seiten 133 - 150 -
8. Unspecified Living Organ Donation
Seiten 151 - 166 -
III. ORGAN ALLOCATION AND TRANSPLANTATION SYSTEMS
9. Allocating Organs
Seiten 169 - 186 -
10. Allocating Organs
Seiten 187 - 208 -
11. Selling Organs
Seiten 209 - 226 -
12. Selecting Donors and Recipients
Seiten 227 - 244 -
IV. ORGAN RECIPIENTS
13. Living with a Transplant
Seiten 247 - 264 -
14. Problematizing the Rhetoric of Gift-Giving in Transplantation Narratives
Seiten 265 - 280 -
15. Transplanting the Uterus
Seiten 281 - 302 -
V. ALTERNATIVES
16. Researching Xenotransplantation
Seiten 305 - 316 -
17. Envisioning 3D Bioprinting
Seiten 317 - 334 -
18. Considering the Role of Public Health
Seiten 335 - 348 -
Contributors
Seiten 349 - 358
27 January 2022, 358 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-4643-0
File size: 3.23 MB
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