Organ and tissue transplantation.9780754625391 Organ and tissue transplantation. Ed. by David Price There have been a number of people named David Price:
Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006 559 pages $275.00 Hardcover The international library of medicine, ethics and law RD120 As part of a 15-volume virtual library on bioethics bioethics, in philosophy, a branch of ethics concerned with issues surrounding health care and the biological sciences. These issues include the morality of abortion, euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, and organ transplants (see transplantation, medical). , this reader collects classics and other interdisciplinary writings (1976-2004) on issues in this burgeoning field. Price (De Monfort U., UK) introduces 29 contributed chapters commencing with US and European medical and legal views on the meaning of death (different degrees of brain deadness vs. the non-beating heart). Other themes include the body as property, commerce in organ procurement, cadaveric organ cadaveric organ Transplant surgery An organ transplanted after its owner's death. See Harvesting, Mandated choice, Presumed consent. and tissue donation, living donor transplantation, specific classes of donors (e.g., pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. ), and equitable organ allocation. Contributions also tackle such debated issues as fetal tissue transplants, harvesting of organs from patients in permanent vegetative states, and xenotransplantation xen·o·trans·plan·ta·tion n. The surgical transfer of cells, tissues, or especially whole organs from one species to another. xenotransplantation of organs from other species. The volume contains a name index but no subject index. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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