The Living Organ Donor as Patient
Theory and Practice
$174.15
- Hardcover
408 pages
- Release Date
23 March 2022
Summary
When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap. Today, we are no closer to the goal of adequate organ supply without living donors–if anything, the supply-demand ratio is worse. While most research on the ethics of organ transplantation focuses on how to allocate organs as a scarce medical resource, the ethical treatment of organ donors themselves has been relatively neglected.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197618202 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197618200 |
| Author: | Lainie Friedman Ross, J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr. |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 23 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 165mm x 246mm |
Critics Review
Moving beyond an understanding of justice as fairness to an in-depth health equity-based critique of existing policies and processes… seems to be an outcome of taking the authors’ framework seriously. * Christy Simpson, Hastings Center Report *
Lainie Friedman Ross
Lainie Friedman Ross, M.D., Ph.D. is the Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Medical Ethics; Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Surgery and the College; Co-Director of the University of Chicago Institute for Translational Medicine, Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and Director of Research Ethics Consultation at the University of Chicago.
J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago in the Transplant Surgery Section of the Department of Surgery, in the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and in the Committee on Immunology.
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