Springer
Transplantation Medicine and Organ Donation in Germany: The Medical, Legal, Organizational and Ethical Frameworks
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- Eva Maria Javier Delmo
- Springer
- Hardcover
- 9783031494413
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- Medical > Surgery - Transplant
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Beside the fascination of feasibility and the remarkable advances in the impressive development of transplantation medicine as a highly sophisticated field of modern science and medicine, a lot of issues and concerns related to the topic still remain to be answered in a meaningful context: the determination of brain death, justice in organ allocation, the contradiction between a high acceptance of organ donation in the German society according to surveys and the low willingness to give consent in the hospital.
Is informed consent a useful legal frame, forcing relatives to make a decision for or against organ donation at the bedside of their beloved relative? What structures in the health care system and especially in everyday hospital life can promote or prevent organ donation as an indispensable condition for a transplantation? Is xenotransplantation a hopeful alternative to human organ transplantation?
With remarkable accuracy and detailed knowledge, this book is an interesting and exciting way, yet evidence-based, of looking into these questions. Although based on German experience, it will provide a valuable and updated guide to it all those who, even in other countries and for private or professional reasons, want to be informed and deal comprehensively with the diverse medical, ethical, organizational, political and economic facets of an extraordinary field of medicine.
This is an open access book.
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