{"product_id":"transplantation-ethics-9780878408122","title":"Transplantation Ethics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree decades after the first heart transplant surgery stunned the world, organs including eyes, lungs, livers, kidneys, and hearts are transplanted every day. But despite its increasingly routine nature-or perhaps because of it-transplantation offers enormous ethical challenges. A medical ethicist who has been involved in the organ transplant debate for many years, Robert M. Veatch explores a variety of questions that continue to vex the transplantation community, offering his own solutions in many cases. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging from the most fundamental questions to recently emerging issues, \u003ci\u003eTransplantation Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e is the first complete and systematic account of the ethical and policy controversies surrounding organ transplants. Veatch structures his discussion around three major topics: the definition of death, the procurement of organs, and the allocation of organs. He lobbies for an allocation system-administered by nonphysicians-that considers both efficiency and equity, that tak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book on transplantation ethics. Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  1. Introduction: Religious and Cultural Perspective  2. An Ethical Framework: General Theories of Ethics  Part One: Defining Death3. 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 Two: Procuring Organs9. 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 Three: Allocating Organs16. The Roles of the Clinician and the Public  17. A General Moral Theory of Organ Allocation  18. Voluntary Risks and Allocations: 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 Case 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  25. Vascularized Composite Allografts: Hand, Face, and Uterine Transplants  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Georgetown University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039032836439,"sku":"9780878408122","price":43.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780878408122.jpg?v=1750942344","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transplantation-ethics-9780878408122","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}