David Petechuk

Organ Transplantation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Every day, newspapers and television news programs present stories on the latest controversies over healthcare and medical advances, but they do not have the space to provide detailed background on the issues. Websites and weblogs provide information from activists and partisans intent on presenting their side of a story. But where can students - or even ordinary citizens - go to obtain unbiased, detailed background on the medical issues affecting their daily lives? This volume in the Health and Medical Issues Today series provides readers and researchers a balanced, in-depth introduction to the medical, scientific, legal, and cultural issues surrounding organ tranplants and its import in today's world of healthcare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780313335426
• ISBN-10: 0313335427
• Artikelnr.: 21033334

Autorenporträt

David Petechuk

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Preface Introduction Section One Overview 1 A Brief History
of Transplantation 2 Organ Procurement: Supply and Demand 3 Organ
Allocation: Establishing a Fair System 4 Advances and the Future of
Transplantation Section Two Controversies and Issues Relating to
Transplantation 5 Buying and Selling Organs for Donation 6 Organ
Allocation: Who Should Get an Organ? 7 Xenotransplantation: Animal Use and
Infectious Disease 8 Living Donors: Giving until It Hurts? 9 Stem Cell
Transplantation and Research: A Question of Life? 10 Face Transplants: Some
Ethical Considerations Section Three References and Resources A Annotated
Primary Source Documents B Timeline for Transplantation Issues C Glossary D
Further Reading Index