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Organ Transplantation de David Petechuk

Organ Transplantation: Health and Medical Issues Today

Autor David Petechuk
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 sep 2006 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Every day, newspapers and television news programs present stories on the latest controversies over healthcare and medical advances, but they do not have the space to provide detailed background on the issues. Websites and weblogs provide information from activists and partisans intent on presenting their side of a story. But where can students - or even ordinary citizens - go to obtain unbiased, detailed background on the medical issues affecting their daily lives? This volume in the Health and Medical Issues Today series provides readers and researchers a balanced, in-depth introduction to the medical, scientific, legal, and cultural issues surrounding organ tranplants and its import in today's world of healthcare.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313335426
ISBN-10: 0313335427
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Seria Health and Medical Issues Today

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Section 2 offers capsule examinations of the contemporary issues and debates that provoke the most heated disagreements and misunderstandings, such as controversies over who deserves to get an organ, and the concerns over xenotransplantation

Notă biografică

David Petechuk is the author of The Respiratory System in Greenwood Press's Human Body Systems series, and the editor of the quarterly newsletter of the Thomas A. Starzl Transplantation Institute.

Cuprins

Series ForewordPrefaceIntroductionSection One Overview1 A Brief History of Transplantation2 Organ Procurement: Supply and Demand3 Organ Allocation: Establishing a Fair System4 Advances and the Future of TransplantationSection Two Controversies and Issues Relating to Transplantation5 Buying and Selling Organs for Donation6 Organ Allocation: Who Should Get an Organ?7 Xenotransplantation: Animal Use and Infectious Disease8 Living Donors: Giving until It Hurts?9 Stem Cell Transplantation and Research: A Question of Life?10 Face Transplants: Some Ethical ConsiderationsSection Three References and ResourcesA Annotated Primary Source DocumentsB Timeline for Transplantation IssuesC GlossaryD Further ReadingIndex

Recenzii

The first section of this book by Petechuk is titled Overview, but its four chapters, which cover history, organ procurement, organ allocation, and advances in transplantation, are all heavily imbued with ethical concerns. The six chapters of section 2, Controversies and Issues Relating to Transplantation, focus very specifically on the ethical issues of buying and selling organs, organ allocation, xenotransplantation, living donors, stem cell transplantation and research, and face transplants. An appendix of primary source documents provides a few brief government documents on various issues. The time line (in an appendix) reveals that the concept of organ transplantation existed as long ago as 400 BCE. A two-page glossary provides greater accessibility for readers without any health science knowledge. The bibliography is current, with entries as recent as 2005. A list of organizations and Web resources completes the text. This is a useful resource..Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates, two-year technical program students, and general readers.
Medical writer Petechuk explains all the sides of the issues for the informed general reader and beginning students, giving a brief history and describing organ procurement as an example of supply and demand, fair organ allocation, and future advanced anticipated, buying and selling organs, prioritizing potential recipients, animal use and infectious disease, living donors, stem cell transplantation, and the ethics behind face transplants. References given here include annotated primary source documents, a timeline, a glossary, and a list of further reading.