Teaching ethics in organ transplantation and tissue donation : cases and movies / Silke Shicktanz, Claudia Wiesemann, Sabine Wöhlke (editors) in cooperation with Amnon Carmi, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, Haifa, Israel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schicktanz, Silke, Editor.

Carmi, Amnon, author.

Contributor:

Schicktanz, Silke, 1970- editor.

Wiesemann, Claudia, 1958- editor.

Wöhlke, Sabine, 1970- editor.

Unesco.

Series:

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (81 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2010

Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Organ transplantation is a thrilling new option for modern surgery giving hope for chronically ill patients, and, at the same time, stirring controversial ethical questions on human identity and the meaning of the human body. Being a global and transnational endeavour, organ transplantation raises universal ethical concerns and, yet, has to be adapted to culturally mediated believes. In this book, 30 case studies collected from all over the world illustrate the range of global and local, ethical, social, and cultural problems associated with this new form of treatment. Together with a list of relevant movies, the collection provides a unique resource for ethics education in medicine, health care, philosophy, and religious studies. The authors have completed the teaching material by a systematic introduction into the field of transplantation ethics.

Contents:

Part A: Introduction

1. Definition and medical practice of organ transplantation

2. The ethics of organ and tissue donation

Part B: Case studies

I. Case: Living kidney donation: the right to refuse

II. Case: Living liver donation and competent decision making

III, Case: Parental living kidney donation

IV. Case: Living liver donation - the right to refuse

V. Case: Living organ donation - legal limits to non-family related donors

VI. Case: Organ transplantation - mentally incompetent recipients

VII. Case: Living organ transplantation - cross-national donors

VIII. Case: Living organ transplantation - legal restrictions on donor-recipient-relationship

IX. Case: Samaritan donation - risk assessment and non-maleficence

X. Case: Samaritan donation - domino-paired issue of justice

XI. Case: Living kidney donation - psychological and cognitive restrictions of the donor

XII. Case: Living organ donation - socio-economic relationship between donor and recipient

XIII. Case: Living organ donation - limits of donor autonomy

XIV. Case: Living bone transplant - informed consent for donation

XV. Case: Bone marrow transplant - mentally incompetent donor

XVI. Case: Post-mortem organ donation - cultural aspects of death and burial traditions

XVII. Case: Brain death - consent procedure

XVIII. Case: Post-mortem organ donation and religious conflicts I

XIX. Case: Post-mortem organ donation and religious conflicts II - follow the law or avoid a scandal?

XX. Case: Definition of death and cultural aspects - family's role

XXI. Case: Conscientious objection of physicians

XXII. Case: Directed (post-mortem) donation - role of preferences for allocation

XXIII. Case: Heart-lung transplantation - assessing high risks

XXIV. Case: Post-mortem organ donation - parental consent

XXV. Case: Xenotransplantation - human trial and informed consent

XXVI. Case: Organ trade - post-surgical follow-up treatment

XXVII. Case: Organ trade - supporting medical tourism

XXVIII. Case: Organ trade - socio-economic dependency between donor and recipient

XXIX. Case: Organ traffic - financial incentives for doctors

XXX. Case: From the perspectives of the patient - is there a right to buy a kidney from a stranger in another country?

Part C: Movies as teaching material - ethical issues in organ transplantation

List of contributors.

Notes:

"UNESCO Chair in bioethics"

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783941875401

OCLC:

808385698