The ethics of organ transplantation /

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Imprint:	Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, 2011. ©2011
Description:	1 online resource (369 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical ethics. Organ Transplantation -- ethics. Medical ethics. Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11225197

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Other authors / contributors:	Jensen, Steven J., 1964-
ISBN:	9780813219332 0813219337 9780813218748 0813218748
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"An ever-increasing demand for organs, with over 100,000 people on waiting lists, has driven a relentless search for new sources of organs. In 1995 the American Medical Association supported taking organs from anencephalic infants, children born without brains. In 1999 the Chinese government began removing organs from members of the politically outcast religious group Falun Gong, making a lucrative profit from sales to foreigners. Recently in Belgium physicians have euthanized a patient by removing her organs. The search for fresh organs began much earlier, in 1968, when death was redefined, so that well-preserved organs could be removed from brain dead individuals. The early 1990s saw the introduction of donation after cardiac death, in which organs are taken from individuals whose hearts could still be resuscitated. Over the last two decades various countries have attempted markets in the sale of organs"--Back cover.
Other form:	Print version: Ethics of organ transplantation. Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, ©2011 xxvii, 339 pages 9780813218748
Standard no.:	99944410493

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Brain death: Primum non nocere : a contrarian ethic? / Robert E. Hurley
Controversies surrounding brain death / D. Alan Shewmon
Ontological status of whole-brain-dead individuals / Jason T. Eberl
Consciousness and aesthetics in decisions concerning organ donation using anencephalic neonates / A.A. Howsepian.
pt. 2. Donation after cardiac death : Organ donation following cardiac death : conflicts of interest, ante mortem interventions, and determinations of death / Christopher Kaczor
Ethical concerns with rapid organ recovery ambulances / L.M. Whetstine.
pt. 3. The dead donor rule: Allow the dying to donate : replace the dead donor rule / Thomas I. Cochrane
A Catholic view on the dead donor rule / Witold Kania
Killing and letting die / Steven J. Jensen.
pt. 4. Gift or conscription?: Organ donation and the beatific vision : Thomist moral theology confronts the tide of relativism / Romanus Cessario, O.P.
The meaning of gift in organ transplantation / Thomas Hurley
Ethics of contact with China on transplants / David Matas
pt. 5. Corollaries and history: Gestational surrogacy and live organ donation : a contrast / Thomas L. Cook
Organ transplants : a study on bioethics and the ordinary magisterium / Janet E. Smith.

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