Overview
- Explains how standard approaches to consent are inadequate in light of the particular features of facial and upper limb transplantation
- Provides a revised consent model which takes into account what is actually required of facial and upper extremity transplant recipients
- Highlights through the covenant consent model the need for a durable personal relationship between the patient/subject and the care provider/researcher
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 73)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- medical advancements for healthcare ethics
- VCA for consent
- covenant consent
- vascularized composite allotransplantation
- upper limb transplantation
- face transplantation
- ethics of consent
- the meaning covenant
- contemporary religious ethics
- solid organ transplants
- the role of consent in health care
- post-medieval philosophy
- current understanding of consent
- informed consent
- VCA
- transplantation ethics
- authorization of donation
- religion and health
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Book Title: A Revised Consent Model for the Transplantation of Face and Upper Limbs: Covenant Consent
Authors: James L. Benedict
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56400-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56399-2Published: 12 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85906-4Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56400-5Published: 25 April 2017
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 256
Topics: Bioethics, Transplant Surgery, Religion and Health