Organ transplantation in times of donor shortage : Challenges and solutions

Table of contents;
1 Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage.
An Introduction; Galia Assadi, Ralf J. Jox and Georg Marckmann.
Part I; The Ethics of Organ Donation: Foundations and Challenges.
2 Brain Death, Justified Killing and the Zombification of Humans - Does the Transplantation Dilemma Require New Ways of Conceptualizing Life and Death?; Tobias Eichinger.
3 Bodily Integrity as a Barrier to Organ Donation; Adrian M. Viens.
4 The Role of Body Concepts for Donation Willingness. Insights from a Survey with German Medical and Economics Students; Sabine Woehlke, Julia Inthorn and Silke Schicktanz.
5 Foundations of a Duty to Donate Organs; Katherine Mendis.
6 Why Altruism is not a Convincing Argument for Promoting Post-mortem Organ Donation: Responsibility and Solidarity as Key Concepts; Diana Aurenque.
7 Why not Confiscate?; Christoph Schmidt-Petri.
8 The Theological-Ethical Dimension of Organ Transplantation in the Context of Contemporary Discussions; Konrad Hilpert.
9 How to be a Virtuous Recipient of a Transplant Organ; Barbro Froeding and Martin Peterson
Part II The Law and Politics of Organ Donation: Problems and Solutions.
10 Challenges to the Dead Donor Rule: Configuring a Biopolitical Response; Nathan Emmerich.
11 Organ Donation and Transplantation in Germany; Thomas Breidenbach.
12 Organ Shortage as a Structural Problem in Transplantation Medicine; Alexandra Manzei.
13 Donation and Devolution: The Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2012; Thomas Hayes.
14 Advance Commitment: An Alternative Approach to the Family Veto Problem in Organ Procurement; Jurgen de Wispelaere and Lindsay Stirton.
15 Power of Legal Concepts to Increase Organ Quantity; Ulrich Schroth and Karin Bruckmuller.
16 Legal Consequences of Organ Transplantation Malpractice; Ruth Rissing-van Saan.
17 Legal Justice in Organ Allocation. A Legal Perspective on the Failure of the German Organ Allocation System; Bijan Fateh-Moghadam.
18 In Whose Best Interest? Questions Concerning the Weal and Woe of Transplant Patients; Sibylle Storkebaum.
Part III Alternative Answer to Organ Shortage: Xenotransplantation.
19 Discordant Cellular and Organ Xenotransplantation - from Bench to Bedside; Bruno Reichart, Sonja Guethoff, Tanja Mayr, Michael Thormann, Stefan Buchholz, Jan-Michael Abicht, Alexander Kind and Paolo Brenner.
20 Xenotransplantation: The Last Best Hope? Ethical Aspects of a Third Way to Solve the Problem of Organ Shortage; Galia Assadi, Lara Pourabdolrahim and Georg Marckmann.
21 Xenotransplantation and Tissue Engineering Technologies: Safeguarding Their Prospects sans Sacrificing our Future; Jan-Ole Reichardt.- Part IV Crossing Borders:International and Intercultural perspectives.
22 Is an Absolute Prohibition of Living Kidney Donation by Minors Appropriate? A Discussion of the Arguments in Favor and Against; Kristof Thys, Fabienne Dobbels, Paul Schotsmans, Pascal Borry.
23 India's Kidney Belt and Medical Tourism: a double-edged sword; Karen de Looze.
24 Iran's Experience on Living and Brain-Dead Organ Donation: A Critical Review; Kiarash Aramesh.
25 The Norwegian Model. Full Utilisation of Both Living and Deceased Donors to Meet the Need for Organs; Per Pfeffer.
26 The Spanish Model of Organ Donation and Transplantation; Rafael Matesanz and Beatriz Dominguez-Gil.
27 The Business of Saving Lives. Organ Donation at OneLegacy in Southern California; Thomas Mone.
28 The Ethics of Controlled Donation After Cardiac Death; Sohaila Bastami.
29 Protocols for Uncontrolled Donation After Circulatory Death. The Thin Red Line Between Life (Resuscitation Attempts) and Death (Organ Retrieval After Circulatory Death); Ivan Ortega-Deballon, David Rodriguez-Arias and Maxwell J. Smith.
List of contributors;
Subject index.