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Raising the Dead

Organ transplants, ethics, and society

Autor: Ronald Munson
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Vydavatel: Oxford University Press Inc
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 10-18 dnů
1 141 Kč
Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or m...

Informace o knize

Autor
Ronald Munson
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2002
Stránek
298
EAN
9780195132991
ISBN
0195132998
Enbook ID
04514939
Vydavatel
Oxford University Press Inc
Hmotnost
622
Rozměry
153 x 236 x 25

Kompletní popis

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 larger 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.

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