Using the Bodies of the Dead: Legal, Ethical and Organisational Dimensions of Organ Transplantation - Hardcover

Machado, Nora

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855219735 ISBN 13: 9781855219731

Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Co Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

The expansion and development of organ transplantation as regular procedures in health care services has had an impact beyond the clinic. It has affected the legal, organizational and cultural conditions for the access, use and transfer of body parts for therapeutic and research purposes. In this book Nora Machado addresses the topic, aiming to illuminate problems and developments related to organ transplantation and high-tech medicine generally. The book also addresses a number of moral issues which increasingly confront this field. The author develops a range of concepts and models in analyzing organ transplantation systems: the dissonances that appear to be endemic to organ transplantation systems; the peculiar function of a number of hospital roles, rituals, and discourses in dealing with such dissonance and related conflict; the legal and normative regulation of body part extraction and allocation in large-scale systems; and the cognitive and moral dilemmas which physicians, nurses and next-of-kin face in the use of the bodies of the dead.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Co Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855219735
• ISBN 13: 9781855219731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264