Children as living donors / Lainie Friedman Ross and J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr. -- Living donors for fulminant hepatic failure in children / Maja Segedi (and 3 others) -- Answers to questions that weren't asked: the ethical complexities of identifying misattributed paternity during the transplant evaluation process / Michael A. Freeman and Lisa S. Parker -- The ethics of persuasion: evaluating the ethical limits on attempting to persuade families to donate the organs of deceased family members / Jennifer A. Chandler and Vanessa Gruben -- Death determination in pediatric organ donation / Sam D. Shemie (and 2 others) -- Controlled donation after cardiac death in pediatrics / Erin Paquette and Joel Frader -- The newborn as organ donor / Christopher Tomlinson and Jonathan Hellmann -- Ethical and organizational issues in adopting a pediatric protocol for controlled donation after circulatory determination of death / Charlotte H. Harrison -- Ethical issues in pediatric small bowel transplantation / Annie Fecteau -- Ethical issues in pediatric vascularized composite allotransplantation / Randi Zlotnik Shaul (and 5 others) -- The ethics of managing conflicts in the era of social media / Sandra Amaral (and 2 others) -- Neurodevelopmental status as a criterion for solid organ transplant eligibility / Aaron Wightman (and 2 others) -- Should transplantation be offered to pediatric foreign nationals? / Marie-Chantal Fortin and Rebecca A. Greenberg -- The ethics of uncertainty, risk, and trust in pediatric heart transplantation / Daniel Z. Buchman and Anne I. Dipchand -- Ethical considerations in the psychosocial evaluation of pediatric organ transplant candidates, recipients and their families / Sabrina F. Derrington (and 2 others) -- Ethical issues in the care of the adolescent transplant recipient / Aviva M. Goldberg and Richard Fine.
Summary:
"This book offers a theoretical and practical overview of the specific ethical and legal issues in pediatric organ transplantation. Written by a team of leading experts, Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation addresses those difficult ethical questions concerning clinical, organizational, legal and policy issues including donor, recipient and allocation issues. Challenging topics, including children as donors, donation after cardiac death, misattributed paternity, familial conflicts of interest, developmental disability as a listing criteria, small bowel transplant, and considerations in navigating the media are discussed. It serves as a fundamental handbook and resource for pediatricians, transplant health care professionals, trainees, graduate students, scholars, practitioners of bioethics and health policy makers."--Back cover.
Series:
International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine, 1567-8008 ; volume 66
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.