Organ and Tissue Transplantation

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