Organ Transplants and Ethics

List of contents

1. Transplants: Experiment or Therapy? 2. Organ Transplants and Criteria for Death 3. The Redefinition Issue 4. Foetal Tissue Transplants 5. Organ Transplants and Anencephalic Infants 6. Living Donors, Non-Human Sources, and Cadaveric Donors 7. Policies for Allocating and Procuring Organs

Summary

Originally published in 1990, this study of the moral problems bound up with transplant therapy addresses a finely balanced distinction between ethical issues relating to its experimental nature on the one hand and those which arise when transplantation is routine on the other.

Product details

• Authors: David Lamb, David (University of Queensland Lamb
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367491512
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49151-2
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, MEDICAL / Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct