Beschreibung
Leading medical ethicists, theologists, lawyers, transplant surgeons and physicians discuss 5 major ethical topics concerning the transplantation of human organs.
Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabeI. Introduction.- Theories of Medical Ethics: The Professional Model Compared with the Societal Model.- II. Living Organ Donation in Western Countries.- Legal Implications of the Principle Primum Nihil Nocere As It Applies to Live Donors.- Voluntarism of Consent in Both Related and Unrelated Living Organ Donors.- Medical Risk and Benefit in Renal Donors.- Medical Risk and Benefit in Renal Donors: The Use of Living Donors Is Justified.- Medical Risk and Benefit in Renal Donors: The Use of Living Donation Reconsidered.- Attitudes to Using Living Related Kidney Donors in The Netherlands.- Living Organ Donation in The Netherlands and in Some Other Countries.- Allowing Relatives to Bridge the Gap: The Norwegian Experience.- The Living Donor in Kidney Transplantation: The Gothenburg Experience 1965-1990 From 490 Consecutive Donor Nephrectomies.- Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Does Donor-Recipient Age Difference Matter?.- Retrospective Evaluation of Psychosocial Factors in Former Living Related Kidney Donors.- Results of an Audit of Living Related Renal Allograft Donation From a Single Centre.- Renal Transplantation From a Living Related Donor.- Organ Donation with Living Related Donors with Cancer.- Social Aspects of Kidney Donations in 300 Living Related and Unrelated Renal Transplantations.- Medical Risk and Benefit in Non-Renal Donors.- Living Related Liver Transplantation in an Adult and a Child.- Medical Risks and Benefit of Pancreas Transplants from Living Related Donors.- Medical Risk and Benefit in Living Pancreas Segment Donors.- Medical Risk and Benefit in Living Pancreas Segment Donors.- Medical Risk and Benefit in Living Small-Bowel Segment Donors.- Living Donor Nonrenal Organ Transplantation: A Focus on Living Related Orthotopic Liver Transplantation.- Living Related Liver Transplantation: A Note of Caution.- General Discussion: Living Organ Donation in Western Countries>.- III. The Intra- and Inter-Cultural Commerce in Human Organs and Tissues.- Is There a Universal System of Ethics or are Ethics Culture-Specific?.- Preventing Commercial Transactions in Human Organs and Tissues: An International Overview of Regulatory and Administrative Measures.- Commercialism and Rewarded Gifting.- The Negative Impact of Paid Organ Donation.- Organ Donation for Consideration: An Indian View Point.- Rewarded Gifting and Rampant Commercialism in Perspective: Is There a Difference?.- From Him that Hath Not.- Aspects of Living Organ Donation with Emphasis on the Fight Against Commercialism.- The Ugly Head of Commercialism in Organ Transplantation in Greece.- Fallouts of Commercialism in Organ Donation as Seen in Pakistan.- Organ Grafting and Human Society.- Commercial Use of Human Cells and Tissue.- European Community Law and its Effects on Import and Export of Human Cells and Tissue.- Legal and Practical Consequences of the Commercial Use of Human Cells and Tissues.- General Discussion: The Intra- and Intra-Cultural Commerce in Human Organs and Tissues>.- IV. The Dilemma of Post Mortem Organ Donation: Are There Any Donation-Facilitating Factors Which are Potentially Suppressed on the Basis of Ethical or Legal Considerations?.- Post Mortem Organ Donation and Brain Death as Death of a Person.- Brain Death as Death of a Human Being: A Matter of Image of Man.- Theological Aspects of Brain Death with Regard to the Death of a Person.- Philosophical Arguments in Accepting Brain Death Criteria.- What Were the Problems of Getting Brain Death Accepted in Denmark: The Beginning and End of a Controversy.- When is a Person Dead?: the Answer of the European Philosophers and Poets.- Brain Death as Identity Loss.- Ethical and Practical Problems of Setting Up a System of Elective Ventilation.- Responsible Involvement on a Large Scale: The Gift of Life in Implicit Solidarity.- Legal/Aspects Post Mortem Organ Donation and Psychological.- Presumed Consent and Cadaver Organ Donation: Is There a Place for Family Involv
