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Transplantation ethics
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- ISBN: 9781626161689 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1626161682 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781626161672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1626161674 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781626161696 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1626161690 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
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xxi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm - Edition: Second edition.
- Publisher: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Religious and cultural perspectives -- 2. An ethical framework: General theories of ethics -- Part I. Defining Death -- 3. The Dead Donor Rule and the concept of death -- 4. The Whole-Brain Concept of Death -- 5. The Circulatory, or Somatic, Concept of Death -- 6. The Higher-Brain Concept of Death -- 7. The Conscience Clause: How much individual choice can our society tolerate in defining death -- 8. Crafting a new definition-of-death law -- Part II. Procuring Organs -- 9. The Donation Model -- 10. Routine salvaging and presumed consent -- 11. Markets for organs -- 12. Live-donor transplants -- 13. High-risk donors -- 14. Xenotransplants: Using organs from animals -- 15. The media's impact on transplants and directed donation -- Part III. Allocating Organs -- 16. The roles of the clinician and the public -- 17. A general moral theory of organ allocation -- 18. Voluntary risks and allocation: Does the alcoholic deserve a new liver? -- 19. Multi-organ, split-organ, and repeat transplants -- 20. The role of age in allocation -- 21. The role of status: The cases of Mickey Mantle, Robert Casey, Steve Jobs, and Dick Cheney -- 22. Geography and other causes of allocation disparities -- 23. Socially directed donation: Restricting donation by social group -- 24. Elective organ transplantation -- Vascularized composite allografts: Hand, face, and uterine transplants. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | RD 120.7 .V43 2015 | 30775305506363 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
Transplantation Ethics : Second Edition
Robert M. Veatch is Professor of Medical Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Regional Transplant Community as well as the Ethics Committee and the Vascular Composite Allografts Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, the Henry Knowles Beecher Award from the Hastings Center, and gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of fifty books including The Basics of Bioethics and Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics . Lainie F. Ross is the Carolyn & Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago; professor in the departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Surgery and the College; associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; and codirector of the Institute for Translational Medicine. She is a recipient of the Patricia Price Brown Prize in Biomedical Ethics from the Oklahoma Health Sciences University and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She is the author of two books, Children, Families and Health Care Decision-Making and Children in Medical Research: Access versus Protection .
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