Transplantation ethics / Robert M. Veatch.

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2000], ©2000.

xvii, 427 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Introduction: religious and cultural perspectives on organ transplantation -- An ethical framework -- Brain death: welcome definition or dangerous judgment? -- The definition of death: problems for public policy -- The whole-brain-oriented concept of death: an outmoded philosophical formulation -- The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death -- The conscience clause: how much individual choice can society tolerate in defining death? -- Crafting a new definition of death law -- Gift or salvage: the two models of organ procurement -- The myth of presumed consent: ethical problems in new organ procurement strategies - Required response: an alternative to presumed consent -- Live-donor transplant: including the permanently unconscious and paired- and live-donor/cadaver exchanges -- Non-heart-beating cadaver donors -- Report of the Anencephaly Task Force of the Washington Regional Transplant Consortium -- The role of age in procurement: minors and the elderly as organ sources -- Tainted organs: HIV-positive and other controversial donors -- The ethics of xenografts -- Who empowers medical doctors to make allocative decisions for dialysis and organ transplantation? -- A general theory of allocation -- Voluntary risks and allocation: does the alcoholic deserve a new liver? -- Multiorgan, split-organ, and repeat transplantations -- The role of age in allocation -- The role of status: did Mickey Mantle get special treatment? -- Urgency versus geography: the controversy between UNOS and Donna Shalala -- Directed donation of organs for transplant: egalitarian and maximin approaches.

Includes bibliographical references and index.