Organ donation
By: Laura Egendorf, book editor
Series: Opposing viewpoints series; Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780737763324; 9780737763331
Subjects: Donation of organs, tissues; Ethics; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Popular works
Description: This volume addresses controversial questions regarding the issue of organ donation. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Ch. 1 Is the organ allocation system fair? :; title: Government oversight into organ transplants needs improvement  -- United States Government Accountability Office; title: The organ donation system remains biased against the disabled  -- Steven Reiss; title: Organ donors should consider where their organs end up  -- Laura Schlessinger; title: How not to assign kidneys  -- Lainie Friedman Ross, -- Benjamin E. Hippen ; -- Ch. 2 How can organ donation be increased? :; title: The selling of organs should be legalized  -- Anthony Gregory; title: Tax cuts for organs?  -- Priya Shetty; title: The meat market  -- Alex Tabarrok; title: Presumed consent is the wrong way to increase organ donation  -- Daniel Sayani ; -- Ch. 3 What ethical issues surround organ donation? :; title: Organ donation: the inconvenient truth  -- John B. Shea; title: Recovery of organs based on brain death is ethical  -- James M. DuBois; title: Organ donation by a prisoner: legal and ethical considerations  -- Stuart J. Bagatell, -- Donald P. Owens, -- Marc J. Kahn; title: Forcing prisoners to donate organs as a condition for release is unethical  -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch; title: The use of children as sibling donors is unethical  -- Jennifer Lahl; title: Concerns about savior siblings should be based on facts  -- Erin Nelson, -- Timothy Caulfield ; -- Ch. 4 What is the future of organ donation? :; title: Xenotransplantation has potential  -- William Edward Beschorner; title: Ethical debate: ethics of xeno-transplantation  -- Murali Krishn, -- Peter Lepping; title: Artificial organs could save lives  -- The Economist; title: Some artificial organs are years away from viability  -- Anthony Atala, -- interviewed by -- Marissa Cevallos; title: Stem cells could solve the organ donation problem -- Andre Terzic,-- Brooks S. Edwards,-- Katherine C. McKee,-- Timothy J. Nelson.