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Raising the dead
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ISBN: 0195132998 9780195132991 1423738322 9781423738329 1280472960 9781280472961 9786610472963 0195350952 1602564035 9780195178012 0195178017 0190285265 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford [England] New York Oxford University Press

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"Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting for them. And what distinguishes these two groups has become the source of one of our thorniest ethical questions." "In Raising the Dead, Ronald Munson offers a vivid, often wrenchingly dramatic account of how transplants are performed, how we decide who receives them, and how we engage the entire range of tough issues that arise because of them. Each chapter begins with a detailed account of a specific case - Mickey Mantle's controversial liver transplant for example - followed by careful analysis of its surrounding ethical questions (the charges that Mantle received special treatment because he was a celebrity, the large problems involving how organs are allocated, and whether alcoholics should have an equal claim on donor livers). In approaching transplant ethics through specific cases, Munson reminds us of the complex personal and emotional dimension that underlies such issues. The book also ranges beyond our present capabilities to explore the future possibilities in xenotransplantation (transplanting animal organs into humans) and stem cell technology that would allow doctors to grow new organs from the patient's own cells." "Based on extensive scientific research, but written with a novelist's eye for the human condition, Raising the Dead shows readers the reality of organ transplantation now, the possibility of what it may become, and how we might respond to the ethical challenges it forces us to confront."--Jacket.

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Medical ethics --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc --- levertransplantatie --- orgaantransplantatie (allocatie van organen, donorschaarste) --- xenotransplantatie --- Organ Transplantation --- Bioethical Issues --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Bioethical Issue --- Issue, Bioethical --- Issues, Bioethical --- Euthanasia --- Human Experimentation --- Patient Rights --- Animal Experimentation --- Grafting, Organ --- Transplantation, Organ --- Graftings, Organ --- Organ Grafting --- Organ Graftings --- Organ Transplantations --- Transplantations, Organ --- Transplantation --- Society and transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social aspects --- transplantation hépatique (greffe de foie) --- transplantation d'organes (greffe d'organes, pénurie d'organes, allocation d'organes) --- xénotransplantation (xénogreffe) --- Moral and religious aspects --- Medical ethics. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Bioethical Issues. --- Ethik. --- Greffe (Chirurgie) --- Implantatie. --- Medische ethiek. --- Orgaandonatie. --- Organ Transplantation. --- Regeneratie. --- Stamcellen. --- Transplantatie. --- Transplantation of organs, tisues, etc --- Transplantation. --- Xenotransplantatie. --- Éthique médicale. --- Aspect moral. --- Aspect social.

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ISBN: 1280914483 9786610914487 0195351827 9780195351828 9780195128338 0195128338 9781280914485 6610914486 0190284501 0197709303 9780190284503 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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The majority of patients in need of organ transplants do not survive long enough for a suitable human organ to become available. Xenotransplantation, the transplant of animal organs into humans, has attracted substantial media attention. If, as appears likely, it proves possible to "humanize" animal organs and evade the problems of rejection, in the coming few years there will be a tremendous increase in this procedure, mostly using organs from animals specifically for their harvestable organs. This book will lay out the potential and promise of the technique, the history of organ transplantation, the technical problems and breakthroughs in overcoming immune rejection, and typing and humanizing donor organs for transplantation. The ethical question of growing animals specifically for organ harvest, and the substantial public health concern from the certainty that animal viruses will pass into humans with the donated organs, will be fully discussed. The authors are among the leaders in the field of Xenotransplantation. This book lays out the potential and promise of Xenotransplantation, the transplant of animal organs into humans. The history of organ transplantation, the technical problems and breakthroughs in overcoming immune rejection, and typing and humanizing donor organs for transplantation are covered.

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