xxii, 296 pages : 27 cm
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
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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