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Organ and Tissue Transplantation
Organ transplantation has been one of the miracles of modern-day medicine but, in addition to presenting enormous technical and clinical challenges, it throws up major ethical and legal issues principally from the perspective of the donor. This volume brings together seminal papers analyzing such matters in the context of an ever-increasingly important area of clinical practice.
| Author(s) | Edited by David Price (Charles Darwin University, Australia). |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 586 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 28 Sept 2006 |
| Availability | Available |
Organ transplantation has been one of the miracles of modern-day medicine but, in addition to presenting enormous technical and clinical challenges, it throws up major ethical and legal issues principally from the perspective of the donor. This volume brings together seminal papers analyzing such matters in the context of an ever-increasingly important area of clinical practice.
Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I Meaning of Death: Is it time to abandon brain death?, R. Truog; The importance of being dead: non-heart-beating organ donation, J. Menikoff. Part II The Body as Property: An alternative to property rights in
David Price is Professor at the School of Law at De Montfort University, UK.
