Laura K Egendorf

Organ Donation Laura K Egendorf

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index.; This volume addresses controversial questions regarding the issue of organ donation. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions. Table of Contents: Why Consider Opposing Viewpoints? -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Is the Organ Allocation System Fair? -- Chapter Preface -- 1. Government Oversight into Organ Transplants Needs Improvement -- United States Government Accountability Office -- 2. The Organ Donation System Remains Biased Against the Disabled / Steven Reiss -- 3. Organ Donors Should Consider Where Their Organs End Up / Laura Schlessinger -- 4. How Not to Assign Kidneys / Lainie Friedman Ross, Benjamin E. Hippen -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 2. How Can Organ Donation Be Increased? -- Chapter Preface -- 1. The Selling of Organs Should Be Legalized / Anthony Gregory -- 2. Tax Cuts for Organs? / Priya Shetty -- 3. The Meat Market / Alex Tabarrok -- 4. Presumed Consent Is the Wrong Way to Increase Organ Donation / Daniel Sayani -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 3. What Ethical Issues Surround Organ Donation? -- Chapter Preface -- 1. Organ Donation: The Inconvenient Truth / John B. Shea -- 2. Recovery of Organs Based on Brain Death Is Ethical / James M. DuBois -- 3. Organ Donation by a Prisoner: Legal and Ethical Considerations / Stuart J. Bagatell, Donald P. Owens, Marc J. Kahn -- 4. Forcing Prisoners to Donate Organs as a Condition for Release Is Unethical / St. Louis Post-Dispatch -- 5. The Use of Children as Sibling Donors Is Unethical / Jennifer Lahl -- 6. Concerns About Savior Siblings Should Be Based on Facts / Erin Nelson, Timothy Caulfield -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 4. What Is the Future of Organ Donation? -- Chapter Preface -- 1. Xenotransplantation Has Potential / William Edward Beschorner -- 2. Ethical Debate: Ethics of Xeno-Transplantation / Murali Krishna, Peter Lepping -- 3. Artificial Organs Could Save Lives The Economist -- 4. Some Artificial Organs Are Years Away from Viability / Anthony Atala, Marissa Cevallos -- 5. Stem Cells Could Solve the Organ Donation Problem / Andre Terzic, Brooks S. Edwards, Katherine C. McKee, Timothy J. Nelson -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- For Further Discussion -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography of Books -- Index.