The living donor as patient : theory and practice / Lainie Friedman Ross and J. Richard Thistlethwaite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Lainie Friedman, author.

Thistlethwaite, J. Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Living related donor transplantation--Moral and ethical aspects.

Living related donor transplantation.

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

Donation of organs, tissues, etc.

Living Donors--ethics.

Organ Transplantation--ethics.

Medical Subjects:

Living Donors--ethics.

Organ Transplantation--ethics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This is a book about living solid organ donors as patients in their own right. This book is premised on the supposition that the field of living donor organ transplantation is ethical, even if some specific applications are not. Living donor organ transplantation is controversial at its core because it exposes one patient (the living donor) to clinical risks for the clinical benefit of another (the candidate recipient). It is different than obstetrics which also involves 2 patients-a pregnant woman and her fetus-- because transplantation involves two physically individuated patients who, in most cases, individually consent to the medical interventions. And in many cases, the donor-recipient interdependence is optional because deceased donor organs may be available. So before one can begin, one must ask, even if only rhetorically: Is living donation ethical? The question is not new: one of the first to ask about the ethics of living donor transplantation was Joseph Murray, the surgeon credited with performing the first successful living donor kidney transplant which paved the way for the broad adoption of kidney and other solid organ transplantation around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

History of Solid Organ Transplantation

Developing a Living Donor Ethics Framework

Women and Minorities as Living Organ Donors

Minors as Living Organ Donors

Prisoners as Living Organ Donors

The Good Samaritan or Non-Directed Donor

Kidney Paired Exchanges and Variants

Expanding Living Liver Donor Transplantation

Living Liver Donor Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure

The Imminently Dying Donor

Challenging (Organ and Global) Boundaries

Organ Markets

Candidate Criteria for Living versus Deceased Donor Liver Grafts: Same or

Different?

Dealing with Uncertainty : APOL1 as a Case Study

Questioning the premise : Is living donor organ transplantation ethical?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Living donor as patient

ISBN:

9780197618202

0197618200

OCLC:

1260170566