Replacement Parts : The Ethics of Procuring and Replacing Organs in Humans / Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, Daniel P. Reid, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caplan, Arthur L., editor.

McCartney, James J., editor.

Reid, Daniel P., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Donation of organs, tissues, etc.

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 (319 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2015]

Summary:

The supply of human organs in the United States continues to lag behind demand. By any objective standard the public policy of "encouraged volunteerism," established with the adoption of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act in 1968, has failed. How should the United States and the health care community address this ongoing scarcity? What strategies would be both morally acceptable and effective? Noted bioethicist Arthur Caplan and his coeditors have brought together seminal essays and articles from the most significant literature in the fields of medicine, policy, philosophy and religion to help analyze and assess these questions. Caplan's introductory essay explains why present policies are inadequate, and succeeding sections of the book address the following issues: the determination of death and the "dead donor rule"; the morally divisive case of anencephalic infants as organ donors; the sale of cadaveric or live organs; strategies for increasing the number of available organs, including the market; and how some organ seekers, such as Apple's Steve Jobs, "game the system" by creating advantageous circumstances for organ donation.

Contents:

The dead donor rule, the determination of death, and organ transplantation from (almost?) cadavers

The dead donor rule and the concept of death : severing the ties that bind them / Elysa R. Koppelman

The theoretical and practical importance of the dead donor rule / James J. McCartney

The dead-donor rule and the future of organ donation / Robert D. Truog, F.G. Miller, S.D. Halpern

The dead donor rule : effect on the virtuous practice of medicine / Frank C. Chaten

Brain death without definitions / Winston Chiong

Accepting brain death / David C. Magnus, B.S. Wilfond, A.L. Caplan

Address to the international congress on transplants / Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II)

Brain death : can it be resuscitated? / Alan Shewmon

The boundaries of organ donation after circulatory death / James L. Bernat

Should we allow organ donation euthanasia? : alternatives for maximizing the number and quality of organs for transplantation / Dominic Wilkinson and J. Savulescu

The ethics of non-heart-beating donation : how new technology can change the ethical landscape / Kristin Zeiler, E. Furberg, G. Tufveson, S. Welin

The use of anencephalic infants as organ donors

Anencephalic donors : separate the dead from the dying / Alexander Morgan Capron

Anencephalics as organ donors / Richard M. Zaner

Ethical issues in the use of anencephalic infants as a source of organs and tissues for transplantation / Arthur L. Caplan

Anencephalic newborns as organ donors / Canadian Paediatric Society

Sale of cadaveric or live organs

Iranian model of paid and regulated living-unrelated kidney donation / Ahad J. Ghods and S. Savaj

Regulated payments for living kidney donation : an empirical assessment of the ethical concerns / Scott D. Halpern, A. Raz, R. Kohn, M. Rey, D.A. Asch, and P. Reese

The hidden cost of organ sale / Sheila M. Rothman and D.J. Rothman

Commercial organ transplantation in the Philippines / Leigh Turner

Kidney vending : the "trojan horse" of organ transplantation / Gabriel M. Danovitch and A.B. Leichtman

Financial incentives for cadaveric organ donation / David Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber and R. Fitzgerald

Other strategies for increasing the number of available organs

Nudge, nudge or shove, shove : the right way for nudges to increase the supply of donated cadaver organs / Kyle Powys Whyte, E. Selinger, A.L. Caplan, J. Sadowski

The case for "presumed consent" in organ donation / Ian Kennedy, R.A. Sells, A.S. Daar, R.D. Guttmann, R. Hoffenberg, M. Lock, J. Radcliffe, N. Tilney Richards

A critical approach to the current understanding of Islamic scholars on using cadaver organs without prior permission / Sahin Aksoy

Priority in organ allocation to previously registered donors : public perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of priority systems / Jennifer A. Chandler, J.A. Burkell, S.D. Shemie

The use of prisoners as sources of organs : an ethically dubious practice / Arthur L. Caplan

Presumed consent to organ donation in three European countries / Barbara L. Neades

Kidney paired donation 2011 / David Serur and M. Charlton

Kidney paired donation / Bradley Wallis, K.P. Samy, A.E. Roth, M.A. Rees

Some high risk kidneys safe for transplant / Kristina Fiore

Gaming the system

Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group and participants in the International Summit on Transplant Tourism and Organ Trafficking convened by the Transplantation Society and International Society of Nephrology in Istanbul, Turkey (April 30/May 2, 2008) / Arthur L. Caplan

The hazards of transplant tourism / Francis L. Delmonico

Transplant tourism in China : a tale of two transplants / Rosamond Rhodes & T. Schiano

Multiple listing in kidney transplantation / Mohammad Sanaei Ardekani and J.M. Orlowski

Can any system of rationing withstand the plea of a ten-year-old girl? / Arthur L. Caplan and J. Desante.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.