1st Edition

Living Donor Organ Transplantation Key Legal and Ethical Issues

By Austen Garwood-Gowers Copyright 1999
248 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

This book was originally published in 1999. When one or more essential organs failed, the consequence used to be death. However, conventional medicine has developed artificial means of extending life, the most successful of which is transplantation. The most common form of organ to be transplanted is a kidney which will, on average, function for about a decade in its recipient. Organ... Read more
1. Contexts.  2. Beneficence and Maleficence.  3. Informed Choice.  4. Motivation and Voluntariness.  5. Minors.  6. Adult Incompetence.  7. Commerce and Compensation.  8. A Change of Approach.

Biography

Austen Garwood-Gowers