Ethical challenges of organ transplantation : : : current debates and international perspectives /

Ethical challenges of organ transplantation : : : current debates and international perspectives / / Solveig Lena Hansen, Silke Schicktanz (editors).

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This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. International readings well-grounded in the latest developments in the life sciences are organized into systematic sections and engage with one another, offering complementary views. All core...

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Superior document:Bioethik-Medizinethik ; Volume 3
TeilnehmendeR:
Hansen, Solveig Lena,
Schicktanz, Silke,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : Transcript,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Bioethik, Medizinethik ; Volume 3.
Physical Description:1 online resource (359 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Inhalt
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Exploring the Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation Ongoing Debates and Emerging Topics
  • I. DONATION OF ORGANS AND TISSUE
  • 1. Making Sense of Donation Altruism, Duty, and Incentives
  • 2. Defining Consent Autonomy and the Role of the Family
  • 3. Nudging in Donation Policies Registration and Decision-Making
  • 4. Appealing to Trust in Donation Contexts Expectations and Commitments
  • II. HUMAN ORGAN SOURCES
  • 5. Determining Brain Death Controversies and Pragmatic Solutions
  • 6. Defining Death in Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death Medical Controversies
  • 7. Deciding about Living Organ Donation Balancing Risk Management and Autonomy
  • 8. Unspecified Living Organ Donation A Challenge to the Duty to 'First Do No Harm'
  • III. ORGAN ALLOCATION AND TRANSPLANTATION SYSTEMS
  • 9. Allocating Organs Fairness, Transparency, and Responsibility
  • 10. Allocating Organs Altruism and Reciprocity
  • 11. Selling Organs Dignity as a Further Concern
  • 12. Selecting Donors and Recipients The Role of Old Age
  • IV. ORGAN RECIPIENTS
  • 13. Living with a Transplant Identity and a Good Life1
  • 14. Problematizing the Rhetoric of Gift-Giving in Transplantation Narratives Epistemic Authorities
  • 15. Transplanting the Uterus A Reproductive Justice Perspective
  • V. ALTERNATIVES
  • 16. Researching Xenotransplantation Moral Rights of Animals
  • 17. Envisioning 3D Bioprinting Scenarios of Organs 'on Demand'
  • 18. Considering the Role of Public Health Organ Shortage, Global Justice, and the Paradox of Prevention
  • Contributors.

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