Overview
- Deals with the latest developments in transplantation medicine worldwide
- Transgresses borders of disciplines and cultures that usually restrict the perspective on transplantation ethics
- Provides a uniquely pragmatic goal, offering new ideas and manageable solutions to the urgent societal problem of organ shortage
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 59)
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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The Ethics of Organ Donation: Foundations and Challenges
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The Law and Politics of Organ Donation: Problems and Solutions
Keywords
- Allocation of scarce organs
- Donor Shortages
- Organ Transplantation
- Philosophical reflections on distributive justice
- Xenotransplantation
- ethical aspects of controlled donation
- ethics of controlled donation
- ethics of organ donation
- organ shortages
- postmortal organ donation
- theological-ethical dimension of organ transplantation
About this book
This book analyzes the reasons for organ shortage and ventures innovative ideas for approaching this problem. It presents 29 contributions from a highly interdisciplinary group of world experts and upcoming professionals in the field. Every year thousands of patients die while waiting for organ transplantation. Health authorities, medical professionals and bioethicists worldwide point to the urgent and yet unsolved problem of organ shortage, which will be even intensified due to the increasing life expectancy. Even though the practical problem seems to be well known, the search for suitable solutions continues and often restricts itself by being limited through disciplinary and national borders. Combining philosophical reflection with empirical results, this volume enables a unique insight in the ethics of organ transplantation and offers fresh ideas for policymakers, health care professionals, academics and the general public.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Solutions
Editors: Ralf J. Jox, Galia Assadi, Georg Marckmann
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16441-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16440-3Published: 19 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34754-7Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16441-0Published: 06 August 2015
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 352
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethics, Transplant Surgery