Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation Current Debates and International Perspectives Solveig Lena Hansen, Silke Schicktanz

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Solveig Lena, Editor.

Schicktanz, Silke, Editor.

Series:

Bioethik, Medizinethik ; Volume 3.

Bioethik / Medizinethik 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics; Medical Ethics; Organ Donation; Transplantation; Brain Death; Medicine; Ethics; Body; Philosophy;.

Local Subjects:

Bioethics; Medical Ethics; Organ Donation; Transplantation; Brain Death; Medicine; Ethics; Body; Philosophy;.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021

Bielefeld transcript Verlag, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Solveig Lena Hansen, born in 1984, is a lecturer for ethics at the University of Bremen, Faculty 11 (Human and Health Sciences). Previously, she was a research associate at the University Medical Center Göttingen. After an MA in Comparative Literature, she did her PhD in Bioethics at the University of Göttingen in 2016. Her ethical research focusses on organ transplantation, health communication, and obesity. She also specializes in the field of medical/health humanities, analyzing the negotiation of bioethical issues in literature and film.

Silke Schicktanz, born in 1970, is full-professor at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany. Her research focuses on the cultural and ethical study of biomedicine. She has lead many international cooperations and was visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, Tel Aviv University, JNU Delhi, Montreal Université and University of Lancaster.

Summary:

This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. International readings well-grounded in the latest developments in the life sciences are organized into systematic sections and engage with one another, offering complementary views. All core issues in the global ethical debate are covered: donating and procuring organs, allocating and receiving organs, as well as considering alternatives. Due to its systematic structure, the volume provides an excellent orientation for researchers, students, and practitioners alike to enable a deeper understanding of some of the most controversial issues in modern medicine.

Contents:

Cover

Inhalt

List of Abbreviations

Exploring the Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation Ongoing Debates and Emerging Topics

I. DONATION OF ORGANS AND TISSUE

1. Making Sense of Donation Altruism, Duty, and Incentives

2. Defining Consent Autonomy and the Role of the Family

3. Nudging in Donation Policies Registration and Decision-Making

4. Appealing to Trust in Donation Contexts Expectations and Commitments

II. HUMAN ORGAN SOURCES

5. Determining Brain Death Controversies and Pragmatic Solutions

6. Defining Death in Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death Medical Controversies

7. Deciding about Living Organ Donation Balancing Risk Management and Autonomy

8. Unspecified Living Organ Donation A Challenge to the Duty to 'First Do No Harm'

III. ORGAN ALLOCATION AND TRANSPLANTATION SYSTEMS

9. Allocating Organs Fairness, Transparency, and Responsibility

10. Allocating Organs Altruism and Reciprocity

11. Selling Organs Dignity as a Further Concern

12. Selecting Donors and Recipients The Role of Old Age

IV. ORGAN RECIPIENTS

13. Living with a Transplant Identity and a Good Life1

14. Problematizing the Rhetoric of Gift-Giving in Transplantation Narratives Epistemic Authorities

15. Transplanting the Uterus A Reproductive Justice Perspective

V. ALTERNATIVES

16. Researching Xenotransplantation Moral Rights of Animals

17. Envisioning 3D Bioprinting Scenarios of Organs 'on Demand'

18. Considering the Role of Public Health Organ Shortage, Global Justice, and the Paradox of Prevention

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed December 19 2025)

ISBN:

9783839446430

3839446430

OCLC:

1272992285

Publisher Number:

9783839446430