Organ transplantation
Subtitle: meanings and realities
By: edited by Stuart J. Youngner, Renée C. Fox, and Laurence J. O'Connell.
Contributors: Youngner, Stuart J.; Fox, Renée C. 1928-; O'Connell, Laurence J.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Psychological aspects; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Religious aspects
Description: This thought-provoking book ponders the far-reaching connections of organ transplantation to human experience. A collaboration among an exceptional group of scholars and physicians, it explores matters of life and death, body and mind, psyche and soul, self and other.

Sponsored by the Chicago-based Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics, the volume is the result of discussions among a group encompassing many religious and cultural traditions and many fields of expertise: philosophy, art, religion, folklore, psychiatry, anthropology, literature, history, social psychology, and surgery.

Whether considering scientific advances in organ transplantation and their implications for medical morality, ambiguous images of organ transplantation in centuries of art and literature, and practices of organ procurement, or the complex bonds that are forged between donors, recipients, and their families, these essays carry our understanding beyond the typical scientific and pragmatic issues raised in discussions of bioethics and public policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.