An edition of Organ donation
(2009)
Organ donation
by Laura K. Egendorf
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This volume addresses controversial questions regarding the issue of organ donation. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions.
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Table of Contents
Ch. 1 Is the organ allocation system fair? :
Government oversight into organ transplants needs improvement -- United States Government Accountability Office
The organ donation system remains biased against the disabled -- Steven Reiss
Organ donors should consider where their organs end up -- Laura Schlessinger
How not to assign kidneys -- Lainie Friedman Ross, -- Benjamin E. Hippen ; -- Ch. 2 How can organ donation be increased? :
The selling of organs should be legalized -- Anthony Gregory
Tax cuts for organs? -- Priya Shetty
The meat market -- Alex Tabarrok
Presumed consent is the wrong way to increase organ donation -- Daniel Sayani ; -- Ch. 3 What ethical issues surround organ donation? :
Organ donation: the inconvenient truth -- John B. Shea
Recovery of organs based on brain death is ethical -- James M. DuBois
Organ donation by a prisoner: legal and ethical considerations -- Stuart J. Bagatell, -- Donald P. Owens, -- Marc J. Kahn
Forcing prisoners to donate organs as a condition for release is unethical -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The use of children as sibling donors is unethical -- Jennifer Lahl
Concerns about savior siblings should be based on facts -- Erin Nelson, -- Timothy Caulfield ; -- Ch. 4 What is the future of organ donation? :
Xenotransplantation has potential -- William Edward Beschorner
Ethical debate: ethics of xeno-transplantation -- Murali Krishn, -- Peter Lepping
Artificial organs could save lives -- The Economist
Some artificial organs are years away from viability -- Anthony Atala, -- interviewed by -- Marissa Cevallos
Stem cells could solve the organ donation problem -- Andre Terzic,-- Brooks S. Edwards,-- Katherine C. McKee,-- Timothy J. Nelson.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index.
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