Teaching ethics in organ transplantation and tissue donation : cases and movies

Teaching ethics in organ transplantation and tissue donation cases and movies

Organ transplantation is a thrilling new option for modern surgery giving hope for chronically ill patients, and, at the same time, stirring controversial ethical questions on human identity and the meaning of the human body. Being a global and transnational endeavour, organ transplantation raises u...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Unesco (-)
Other Authors: Schicktanz, Silke (Editor), Schicktanz, Silke, 1970-, editor (editor), Wiesemann, Claudia, 1958-, editor (author), Wöhlke, Sabine, 1970-, editor, Carmi, Amnon, author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2010
2010.
Series:Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched
Subjects:
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medicine
Ethics
Organ Transplantation
Brain death
Kidney
Kidney transplantation
Liver
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423357106719
Table of Contents:
  • Part A: Introduction
  • 1. Definition and medical practice of organ transplantation
  • 2. The ethics of organ and tissue donation
  • Part B: Case studies
  • I. Case: Living kidney donation: the right to refuse
  • II. Case: Living liver donation and competent decision making
  • III, Case: Parental living kidney donation
  • IV. Case: Living liver donation - the right to refuse
  • V. Case: Living organ donation - legal limits to non-family related donors
  • VI. Case: Organ transplantation - mentally incompetent recipients
  • VII. Case: Living organ transplantation - cross-national donors
  • VIII. Case: Living organ transplantation - legal restrictions on donor-recipient-relationship
  • IX. Case: Samaritan donation - risk assessment and non-maleficence
  • X. Case: Samaritan donation - domino-paired issue of justice
  • XI. Case: Living kidney donation - psychological and cognitive restrictions of the donor
  • XII. Case: Living organ donation - socio-economic relationship between donor and recipient
  • XIII. Case: Living organ donation - limits of donor autonomy
  • XIV. Case: Living bone transplant - informed consent for donation
  • XV. Case: Bone marrow transplant - mentally incompetent donor
  • XVI. Case: Post-mortem organ donation - cultural aspects of death and burial traditions
  • XVII. Case: Brain death - consent procedure
  • XVIII. Case: Post-mortem organ donation and religious conflicts I
  • XIX. Case: Post-mortem organ donation and religious conflicts II - follow the law or avoid a scandal?
  • XX. Case: Definition of death and cultural aspects - family's role
  • XXI. Case: Conscientious objection of physicians
  • XXII. Case: Directed (post-mortem) donation - role of preferences for allocation
  • XXIII. Case: Heart-lung transplantation - assessing high risks
  • XXIV. Case: Post-mortem organ donation - parental consent
  • XXV. Case: Xenotransplantation - human trial and informed consent
  • XXVI. Case: Organ trade - post-surgical follow-up treatment
  • XXVII. Case: Organ trade - supporting medical tourism
  • XXVIII. Case: Organ trade - socio-economic dependency between donor and recipient
  • XXIX. Case: Organ traffic - financial incentives for doctors
  • XXX. Case: From the perspectives of the patient - is there a right to buy a kidney from a stranger in another country?
  • Part C: Movies as teaching material - ethical issues in organ transplantation
  • List of contributors.

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