Transplantation Ethics

Preface 1. Introduction: Religious and Cultural Perspective 2. An Ethical Framework: General Theories of Ethics Part One: Defining Death3. The Dead Donor Rule and the Concept of Death 4. The Whole-Brain Concept of Death 5. The Circulatory, or Somatic, Concept of Death 6. The Higher-Brain Concept of Death 7. The Conscience Clause: How Much Individual Choice Can Our Society Tolerate in Defining Death? 8. Crafting a New Definition-of-Death Law Part Two: Procuring Organs9. The Donation Model 10. Routine Salvaging and Presumed Consent 11. Markets for Organs 12. Live-Donor Transplants 13. High-Risk Donors 14. Xenotransplants: Using Organs from Animals 15. The Media's Impact on Transplants and Directed Donation Part Three: Allocating Organs16. The Roles of the Clinician and the Public 17. A General Moral Theory of Organ Allocation 18. Voluntary Risks and Allocations: Does the Alcoholic Deserve a New Liver? 19. Multi-Organ, Split-Organ, and Repeat Transplants 20. The Role of Age in Allocation 21. The Role of Status: The Case of Mickey Mantle, Robert Casey, Steve Jobs, and Dick Cheney 22. Geography and Other Causes of Allocation Disparities 23. Socially Directed Donation: Restricting Donation by Social Group 24. Elective Organ Transplantation 25. Vascularized Composite Allografts: Hand, Face, and Uterine Transplants Index