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Zusatztext A monumental and gripping study of the politics of the family and reproduction in the USSR under and after Stalin. Among other things, Nakachi explains how the world's first law to recognize a woman's right to abortion came about in 1955, and in a country without a modern feminist movement. Informationen zum Autor Ronald Munson is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Medicine! University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Intervention and Reflection! the most widely used medical ethics textbook in the US! and of three novels. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Ronald Munson looks into the tense and tangled world of organ transplantation. Using cases as points of departure, Munson shows how transplants are performed, decisions are made, and ethical and social issues arise. 1. Raising the dead: Robby Benson's heart; 2. Mickey Mantle's liver: Part 1 - the case; 3. Mickey Mantle's liver: Part 2 - the issues; 4. That others may live: the dead donor rule and anencephalic infants; 5. Kidney for sale: is it ever right to sell your kidney?; 6. Donors of last resort: protecting vulnerable people; 7. Kurosawa in California: Baby Fae and unproven treatments; 8. But are they really dead? Is no heartbeat enough for death?; 9. Xenotransplantation: Part 1 - chasing the dream; 10. Xenotransplantation: Part 2 - hoping for the best, fearing the worst; 11. Grow your own organs: stem-cell engineering and regenerative medicine
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Ronald Munson is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Medicine, University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Intervention and Reflection, the most widely used medical ethics textbook in the US, and of three novels.
Zusammenfassung
Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting for them. And what distinguishes these two groups has become the source of one of our thorniest ethical questions.
In Raising the Dead, Ronald Munson offers a vivid, often wrenchingly dramatic account of how transplants are performed, how we decide who receives them, and how we engage the entire range of tough issues that arise because of them. Each chapter begins with a detailed account of a specific case--Mickey Mantle's controversial liver transplant, for example--followed by careful analysis of its surrounding ethical questions (the charges that Mantle received special treatment because he was a celebrity, the larger problems involving how organs are allocated, and whether alcoholics should have an equal claim on donor livers). In approaching transplant ethics through specific cases, Munson reminds us of the complex personal and emotional dimension that underlies such issues. The book also ranges beyond our present capabilities to explore the future possibilities in xenotransplantation (transplanting animal organs into humans) and stem cell technology that would allow doctors to grow new organs from the patient's own cells.
Based on extensive scientific research, but written with a novelist's eye for the human condition, Raising the Dead shows readers the reality of organ transplantation now, the possibility of what it may become, and how we might respond to the ethical challenges it forces us to confront.
Zusatztext
A monumental and gripping study of the politics of the family and reproduction in the USSR under and after Stalin. Among other things, Nakachi explains how the world's first law to recognize a woman's right to abortion came about in 1955, and in a country without a modern feminist movement.
