Title: Replacement parts : the ethics of procuring and replacing organs in humans /
Authors: Caplan, Arthur L.; McCartney, James J.,; Reid, Daniel P.,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Tissue Donors supply & distribution; Tissue and Organ Procurement ethics; Organ Transplantation ethics; Donation of organs, tissues, etc. Moral and ethical aspects.; Procurement of organs, tissues, etc Moral and ethical aspects.; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. Moral and ethical aspects; Allocation of organs, tissues, etc Moral and ethical aspects.
Abstract: The supply of human organs in the United States continues to lag behind demand. By any objective standard the public policy of "encouraged volunteerism," established with the adoption of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act in 1968, has failed. How should the United States and the health care community address this ongoing scarcity? What strategies would be both morally acceptable and effective? Noted bioethicist Arthur Caplan and his coeditors have brought together seminal essays and articles from the most significant literature in the fields of medicine, policy, philosophy and religion to help analyze and assess these questions. Caplan's introductory essay explains why present policies are inadequate, and succeeding sections of the book address the following issues: the determination of death and the "dead donor rule"; the morally divisive case of anencephalic infants as organ donors; the sale of cadaveric or live organs; strategies for increasing the number of available organs, including the market; and how some organ seekers, such as Apple's Steve Jobs, "game the system" by creating advantageous circumstances for organ donation.
Contents: The dead donor rule, the determination of death, and organ transplantation from (almost?) cadavers / James J. McCartney -- The dead donor rule and the concept of death : severing the ties that bind them / Elysa R. Koppelman -- The theoretical and practical importance of the dead donor rule / James J. McCartney -- The dead-donor rule and the future of organ donation / Robert D. Truog, Franklin G. Miller, and Scott D. Halpern -- The dead donor rule : effect on the virtuous practice of medicine / Frank C. Chaten -- Brain death without definitions / Winston Chiong -- Accepting brain death / David C. Magnus, Benjamin S. Wilfond, and Arthur L. Caplan.