The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition: Moral Arguments about Transplantation

The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition

Moral Arguments about Transplantation
 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Number of Volumes: Hardback
 
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ISBN13:9781350227170
ISBN10:135022717X
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:272 pages
Size:216x138 mm
Language:English
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As the demand for organs continues to outstrip availability and waiting lists surge, the pressure to make morally questionable, unethical decisions becomes more likely and trust in transplant medicine starts to erode. Medical ethics expert and former health professional, Trevor Stammers, analyses the complex ethical web that constitutes the worldwide exchange of organs and tissues.

Key philosophical questions concerning existence, consciousness, the nature of death and the right to life connect organ donation and transplantation to real-life case studies exploring difficulties with the 'dead donor rule' for deceased donation, organ donation euthanasia, xenotransplantation and the creation of organoids and 'organs-on-chips', alongside examples of human trafficking and systematic state murder to provide organs. Controversial cases from Japan, Germany, USA and Singapore are examined alongside the Spanish, Welsh, and Chilean experience of deceased donation opt-out schemes to highlight the variety of threats and challenges to public trust in transplant medicine.

Charting these examples provides valuable material for debates and discussions in the philosophy of medicine and medical ethics more generally. Stammers suggests viable alternatives to current ethical failings by focusing on the moral arguments that define public trust, moving the debate on transplant ethics in vital new directions.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Dictionary of Abbreviations

1. The Triumph of Transplantation
2. Organs from Living Donors
3. Organs from the Dead
4. Organ Donation and Euthanasia
5. Organ Trafficking, Tourism and Trading
6. Organs from Animals and Bioengineering
7. Ethical Global Organ Acquisition

Bibliography
Index