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Raising the Dead - Organ transplants, ethics, and society (Paperback, Revised)
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Raising the Dead - Organ transplants, ethics, and society (Paperback, Revised)
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Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more
spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical
questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000
Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving
vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting for them. And
what distinguishes these two groups has become the source of one of
our thorniest ethical questions.
In Raising the Dead, Ronald Munson offers a vivid, often
wrenchingly dramatic account of how transplants are performed, how
we decide who receives them, and how we engage the entire range of
tough issues that arise because of them. Each chapter begins with a
detailed account of a specific case--Mickey Mantle's controversial
liver transplant, for example--followed by careful analysis of its
surrounding ethical questions (the charges that Mantle received
special treatment because he was a celebrity, the larger problems
involving how organs are allocated, and whether alcoholics should
have an equal claim on donor livers). In approaching transplant
ethics through specific cases, Munson reminds us of the complex
personal and emotional dimension that underlies such issues. The
book also ranges beyond our present capabilities to explore the
future possibilities in xenotransplantation (transplanting animal
organs into humans) and stem cell technology that would allow
doctors to grow new organs from the patient's own cells.
Based on extensive scientific research, but written with a
novelist's eye for the human condition, Raising the Dead shows
readers the reality of organ transplantation now, the possibility
of what it may become, and how we might respond to the ethical
challenges it forces us to confront.
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