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Informationen zum Autor Robert M. Veatch is professor of medical ethics at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He has served on the board of the Washington Regional Transplant Consortium since 1988 and on the United Network for Organ Sharing's Ethics Committee from 1989 to 1995! experience that has exposed him to cutting-edge debate on moral and policy issues as they emerge on the national scene. Veatch's books include Source Book in Bioethics! edited with Albert R. Jonsen and LeRoy Walters (Georgetown University Press! 1998)! which was named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice magazine. Klappentext The first complete and systematic account of the ethical and policy controversies surrounding organ transplants. Zusammenfassung Despite its increasingly routine nature - or perhaps because of it - transplantation offers enormous ethical challenges. This title explores a variety of questions that vex the transplantation community! offering solutions in many cases. It offers an account of the ethical and policy controversies surrounding organ transplants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Introduction: Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Organ Transplantation 2. An Ethical Framework Part One: Defining Death3. Brain Death: Welcome Definition or Dangerous Judgment? 4. The Definition of Death: Problems for Public Policy 5. The Whole-Brain-Oriented Concept of Death: An Outmoded Philosophical Formulation 6. The Impending Collapse of the Whole-Brain Definition of Death 7. The Conscience Clause: How Much Individual Choice Can Society Tolerate in Defining Death 8. Crafting a New Definition of Death for Public Policy Purposes Part Two: Procuring Organs9. Gift or Salvage: The Two Models of Organ Procurement 10. The Myth of Presumed Consent: Ethical Problems in New Organ Procurement Strategies 11. Required Response: An Alternative to Presumed Consent 12. Live-Donor Transplant: Including the Premanently Unconscious and Paired- and Live-Donor/Cadaver Exchanges 13. Non-Heart Beating Cadaver Donors 14. Report of the Anencephaly Task Force of the Washington Regional Transplant Consortium 15. The Role of Age in Procurement: Minors and the Elderly as Organ Sources 16. Tainted Organs: HIV-Positive and Other Controversial Donors 17. The Ethics of Xenografts Part Three: Allocating Organs18. Who Empowers Medical Doctors to Make Allocative Decisions for Dialysis and Organ Transplantation? 19. A General Theory of Allocation 20. Voluntary Risks and Allocation: Does the Alcoholic Deserve a New Liver? 21. Multiorgan! Split-Organ! and Repeat Transplants 22. The Role of Age in Allocation 23. The Role of Status: Did Mickey Mantle Get Special Treatment? 24. Urgency versus Geography: The Controversy between UNOS and Donna Shalala 25. Directed Donation of Organs for Transplant: Egalitarian and Maximin Approaches Index ...
