Organ and Tissue Transplantation

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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 human tissue, R. Marusyk and M.S. Swain Living tissue and organ donors and property law: more on Moore, B.M. Dickens. Part III Commerce in Organ Procurement: Nephrarious goings on: kidney sales and moral arguments, J. Radcliffe-Richards Why liberals should accept financial incentives for organ procurement, R.M. Veatch Increasing the supply of transplant organs: the virtues of a futures market, L.R. Cohen Money talks, money kills - the economics of transplantation in Japan and China, C. Becker. Part IV Cadaveric Organ and Tissue Donation: Freedom to choose and freedom to lose: the procurement of cadaver organs for transplantation, B. Hoffmaster The moral duty to contribute and its implications for organ procurement policy, P.T. Menzel The case for presumed consent to transplant human organs after death, C. Cohen Presumed consent or contracting out, C.A. Erin and J. Harris The failure to give: reducing barriers to organ donation, J.F. Childress 2 steps to 3 choices: a new approach to mandated choice, S.E. Herz Ethical issues in limb transplants, D. Dickenson and G. Widdershoven On the ethics of facial transplantation, O. Wiggins, J. Barker, S. Martinez, M. Vossen, C. Maldonado, F. Grossi, C. FranA ois, M. Cunningham, G. Perez-Abadia, M. Kon, J. Banis. Part V Living Donor Transplantation: Autonomy's limits: living donation and health-related harm, R. Sauder and L.S. Parker Moral agency and the family the case of living related organ transplantation, R.A. Crouch and C. Elliott Organ donations by incompetents and the substituted judgment doctrine, J.A. Robertson. Part VI Specific Classes of Donors: Taking the camel by the nose: the anencephalic as a source for pediatric organ transplants, J.A. Friedman A