Raising the dead : organ transplants, ethics, and society

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Label

Raising the dead : organ transplants, ethics, and society

Title remainder

organ transplants, ethics, and society

Statement of responsibility

Ronald Munson

Creator

• Munson, Ronald, 1939-

Subject

• Ethik
• Greffe (Chirurgie) -- Aspect moral
• Greffe (Chirurgie) -- Aspect social
• Implantatie
• Medical ethics
• Medical ethics
• Medical ethics
• Medische ethiek
• Orgaandonatie
• Organ Transplantation
• Regeneratie
• Bioethical Issues
• Transplantatie
• Transplantation
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects
• Transplantation of organs, tisues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Xenotransplantatie
• Éthique médicale
• Stamcellen

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

174/.25

Index

index present

LC call number

RD120.7

LC item number

.M86 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

• 2002 B-470
• WO 690

NLM item number

M969r 2002