The living organ donor as patient theory and practice / Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD and J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr., MD, PhD.
| Author/creator | Ross, Lainie Friedman |
| Other author | Thistlethwaite, J. Richard. |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] |
| Description | xiii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | History of Solid Organ Transplantation -- Developing a Living Donor Ethics Framework -- Women and Minorities as Living Organ Donors -- Minors as Living Organ Donors -- Prisoners as Living Organ Donors -- The Good Samaritan or Non-Directed Donor -- Kidney Paired Exchanges and Variants -- Expanding Living Liver Donor Transplantation -- Living Liver Donor Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure -- The Imminently Dying Donor -- Challenging (Organ and Global) Boundaries -- Organ Markets -- Candidate Criteria for Living versus Deceased Donor Liver Grafts: Same or -- Different? -- Dealing with Uncertainty : APOL1 as a Case Study -- Questioning the premise : Is living donor organ transplantation ethical? |
| Abstract | "This is a book about living solid organ donors as patients in their own right. This book is premised on the supposition that the field of living donor organ transplantation is ethical, even if some specific applications are not. Living donor organ transplantation is controversial at its core because it exposes one patient (the living donor) to clinical risks for the clinical benefit of another (the candidate recipient). It is different than obstetrics which also involves 2 patients-a pregnant woman and her fetus-- because transplantation involves two physically individuated patients who, in most cases, individually consent to the medical interventions. And in many cases, the donor-recipient interdependence is optional because deceased donor organs may be available. So before one can begin, one must ask, even if only rhetorically: Is living donation ethical? The question is not new: one of the first to ask about the ethics of living donor transplantation was Joseph Murray, the surgeon credited with performing the first successful living donor kidney transplant which paved the way for the broad adoption of kidney and other solid organ transplantation around the world"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021030802 |
| ISBN | 9780197618202 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (online) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |