Legal and ethical aspects of organ transplantation / David Price.

Publisher's description: Organ transplantation raises singularly difficult ethical and legal issues in its requirement for donated organs. Strategies to facilitate supply in the face of increasing demand must be ethically sound and subject to an appropriate and effective regulatory framework. P...

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Main Author: Price, David P. T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] : New York : University of Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Summary:Publisher's description: Organ transplantation raises singularly difficult ethical and legal issues in its requirement for donated organs. Strategies to facilitate supply in the face of increasing demand must be ethically sound and subject to an appropriate and effective regulatory framework. Professor David Price reviews the ethical principles and positions underpinning such law and policies, probing for coherence, consistency and justification. The book incorporates a comprehensive analysis of existing laws and policies governing transplantation practices around the world. It examines the meaning of death, cadaver organ procurement policies, use of living donors, trading in human organs, experimental transplant procedures and xenotransplantation. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplinary and empirical materials Price explores the balance between the interests of donors, recipients, clinicians, and society, identifying the specific challenges of this subject and seeking to guide current practices and future developments in the context of cultural diversity and pluralistic societies.
Item Description:Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Physical Description:xix, 487 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0521651646 (hardback)