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Raising the dead :

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0195132998

(Number (ISBN

0195178017

(Number (ISBN

9780195132991

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9780195178012

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b767519

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Raising the dead :

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[Book]

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organ transplants, ethics, and society /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ronald Munson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

288 pages ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.

Text of Note

A modern Lazarus: Robby Benson's heart -- Mickey Mantle's liver, part 1: the case -- Mickey Mantle's liver, part 2: the issues -- That others may live: the dead-donor rule and anencephalic infants -- Kidney for sale: is it ever right to sell your kidney? -- Donors of last resort: protecting vulnerable people -- Kurosawa in California: the baby Fae case and unproven treatments -- But are they really dead?: Is no heartbeat enough for death? -- Xenotransplantation, part 1: chasing the dream -- Xenotransplantation, part 2: fearing the worst, hoping for the best -- Grow your own organs: stem-cell engineering and generative medicine.

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Text of Note

"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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Levant - sup

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32.72

Medical ethics.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.-- Moral and ethical aspects.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.-- Social aspects.

Bioethical Issues.

Organ Transplantation.

Éthique médicale.

Greffe (Chirurgie)-- Aspect moral.

Greffe (Chirurgie)-- Aspect social.

Ethik

Ethik.

Implantatie.

Medical ethics.

Medical ethics.

Medische ethiek.

Orgaandonatie.

Regeneratie.

Stamcellen.

Transplantatie.

Transplantation

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, tisues, etc.-- Moral and ethical aspects.

Transplantation.

Xenotransplantatie.

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Munson, Ronald,1939-

Date of Transaction

20201206125801.0

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[Book]

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