Martha Gershun, John D Lantos

Kidney to Share

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A woman who decides to donate a kidney to a stranger tells her story, and a bioethicist reviews the history of ethical controversies surrounding organ donation. These different perspectives on kidney donation give the reader a sense of how this medical technology has evolved and how ethics and the law have changed to make organ donation possible"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 196mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781501755439
• ISBN-10: 1501755439
• Artikelnr.: 61219306

Autorenporträt

Martha Gershun, and John D. Lantos, MD

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Why Not Me?
2. The Arcane Process of Screening Living Donors
3. Meeting "My" Recipient
4. Do I Own My Organs?
5. Evaluation at Mayo
6. Are "Stranger Donors" Irrational?
7. What Are the Risks?
8. Unnecessary Bureaucratic Barriers or Appropriate Patient Protection?
9. The Endgame
10. Paired Exchanges, Chain Donations, and Organ Markets
11. The Odyssey Continues
12. Complexities of Increasing Organ Supply
13. Going Public, Moving Forward
14. The Countdown Begins
15. Ethics, Organ Markets, and Dry Ice
16. Staying Healthy
17. First Attempt
18. Second Attempt
19. Follow-Up
20. Lessons Learned
Epilogue