Moral conflicts of organ retrieval : a case for constructive pluralism / Charles C. Hinkley II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinkley, Charles C., II

Series:

Value inquiry book series. Values in bioethics ; 172.

Value inquiry book series. Values in bioethics.

Value inquiry book series ; 172

Values in bioethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.

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

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses ethical conflicts arising from saving the lives of patients who need a transplant while treating living and dead donors, organ sellers, animals, and embryos with proper moral regard. Our challenge is to develop a better world in the light of debatable values and uncertain consequences.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: A Philosophical Framework

1 Dilemmas, Conflicts, and Residue

1 Terminology

2 Moral Residue

3 Epistemology and Ontology of Dilemmas

4 Dilemmas and Deontic Logic

5 Guilt, Regret, and Remorse

6 Autonomy and Wrongdoing

7 Survivor's Guilt

8 The Nature of Emotion

9 Residual Requirements to Act

10 Can We Do without Residue?

11 Intuitively Knowing Dilemmas

12 Conclusion

2 Medical Ethics and Its Limitations

1 Cliff's Choice

2 Beauchamp and Childress's Principlism

3 Virtue Ethics

4 Feminist Bioethics

5 Case Analysis

6 Engelhardt's Postmodern Libertarianism

7 Gert, Culver, and Clouser on Common Morality

8 Cliff's Choice Revisited

9 Conclusion

3 Pluralism, Incommensurability, and Weighing

1 Moral Pluralism

2 Incommensurability

3 Covering Values

4 The Plurality of Values

5 The Calculation of Values

6 The Irresolvability of Conflict

7 Education and Skill

8 Merited Desire Strength

9 Weighing Our Options

10 Conclusion

Part 2: Conflicts of Organ Retrieval

4 Transplant Recipients' Quality of Life

1 Heart Transplants

2 Liver Transplants

3 Kidney Transplants

4 Conclusion

5 Can We Wrong the Dead?

1 Bioethics and Patient Autonomy

2 The Pitcher-Feinberg Thesis

3 Callahan's Challenge

4 Serafini's Thesis

5 Symbolic Action and the Preferences of the Living

6 For the Living

7 Conclusion

6 Defining Death

1 Historical Background for the Whole-Brain Definition of Death

2 Problems with the Whole-Brain Definition of Death

3 The Higher-Brain Definition

4 Revisiting the Whole-Brain Definition

5 The Cardiopulmonary Definition

6 Renewed Challenges to Whole Brain Death

7 Is Defining Death a Moral Issue?

8 Conclusion

7 The Selling of Organs

1 Models of Organ Vending

2 Cultural Values and Meaning

3 Financial Incentives and the Supply of Organs

4 Commodification

5 Defenders of Organ Sales and Their Critics

6 Risks of Living Donation

7 Respect for Persons

8 Cadaveric Organ Sales and the Altruistic Tradition

8 Xenografts

1 Historical Background

2 Qualitative Distinctions and Human Privilege

3 Risks to Third Parties

4 Responding to Risk

5 The Prospects of Xenografts

6 Conclusion

9 Stem Cell Research

1 United States Policy

2 The Moral Status of Early Human Life Forms

3 Property Rights

4 Adult Stem Cells

5 iPSCs

Part 3: A Philosophical Response

10 The Regulative Principle

1 Marcus's Regulative Principle

2 Mothersill on the Regulative Principle

3 The Regulative Principle and Dilemmas

4 The Regulative Principle and Conflicts

5 Implications for Prevention

6 Prevention

11 Constructive Pluralism

1 Rationality amid Incommensurability

2 Routine Retrieval, Presumed Consent, and Familial Consent

3 The Definition of Death

4 Selling Organs

5 Xenotransplants

6 Stem Cell Research

7 Additional Strategies

8 Sets of Strategies

Conclusion

Bibliography

Author Index

subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-194) and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0178-1

1-4237-9193-2

OCLC:

714567272

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401201780 DOI