Teaching ethics in organ transplantation and tissue donation : cases and movies /

Organ transplantation allows modern surgeons to give new life to chronically ill patients. At the same time, the new opportunities raise ethical questions concerning human identity and the definition of the human body. These concerns do not play out the same in all cultures or in every situation. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wöhlke, Sabine, Wiesemann, Claudia, 1958-, Schicktanz, Silke, Carmi, Amnon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Akron, Ohio] : University of Akron Press, 2011.
Edición:North American ed.
Temas:
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects > Study and teaching.
Transplantation > ethics
Greffe (Chirurgie) > Aspect moral > Étude et enseignement.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
MEDICAL > General.
Case Reports
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part A: Introduction
  • 1. Definition and medical practice of organ transplantation
  • Success rates
  • 2. The ethics of organ and tissue donation
  • Post-mortem donors
  • Living donors
  • Body concepts and personal identity
  • Commodification and organ trade
  • Xenotransplantation
  • Further reading
  • Part B: Case studies
  • Case: Living kidney donation
  • the right to refuse
  • Case: Living liver donation and competent decision making
  • Case: Parental living kidney donation
  • Case: Living liver donation
  • the right to refuse
  • Case: Living organ donation
  • legal limits to non-family related donations
  • Case: Organ transplantation
  • mentally incompetent recipients
  • Case: Living organ transplantation: cross-national donors
  • Case: Living organ donation
  • legal restrictions on donorrecipient-relationship
  • Case: Samaritan donation
  • risk assessment and nonmaleficence
  • Case: Samaritan donation
  • domino-paired issue of justice
  • Case: Living kidney donation
  • psychological and cognitive restrictions of the donor
  • Case: Living organ donation
  • socio-economic relationship between donor and recipient
  • Case: Living organ donation
  • limits of donor autonomy
  • Case: Living bone transplant
  • informed consent for donation
  • Case: Bone marrow transplantation
  • mentally incompetent donor
  • Case: Post-mortem organ donation
  • cultural aspects of death and burial traditions
  • Case: Brain death
  • consent procedure
  • Case: Post-mortem organ donation and religious conflicts I
  • Case: Post-mortem organ donation and religious conflicts II
  • follow the law or avoid a scandal?
  • Case: Definition of death and cultural aspects
  • family's role
  • Case: Conscientious objection of physicians
  • Case: Directed (post-mortem) donation
  • role of preferences for allocation
  • Case: Heart-lung-transplantation
  • assessing high risks
  • Case: Post-mortem organ donation
  • parental consent
  • Case: Xenotransplantation
  • human trial and informed consent
  • Case: Organ trade
  • post-surgical follow-up treatment
  • Case: Organ trade
  • supporting medical tourism
  • Case: Organ trade
  • socio-economic dependency between donor and recipient
  • Case: Organ traffic
  • financial incentives for doctors
  • Case: From the perspectives of the patient
  • is there a right to buy a kidney from a stranger from another country?
  • Part C: Movies as teaching material
  • ethical issues in organ transplantation
  • Table of movies
  • List of Contributors.

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