5. Determining Brain Death

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Inhalt 5
3. List of Abbreviations 9
4. Exploring the Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation 11
5. I. DONATION OF ORGANS AND TISSUE
6. 1. Making Sense of Donation 23
7. 2. Defining Consent 43
8. 3. Nudging in Donation Policies 65
9. 4. Appealing to Trust in Donation Contexts 81
10. II. HUMAN ORGAN SOURCES
11. 5. Determining Brain Death 103
12. 6. Defining Death in Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death 117
13. 7. Deciding about Living Organ Donation 133
14. 8. Unspecified Living Organ Donation 151
15. III. ORGAN ALLOCATION AND TRANSPLANTATION SYSTEMS
16. 9. Allocating Organs 169
17. 10. Allocating Organs 187
18. 11. Selling Organs 209
19. 12. Selecting Donors and Recipients 227
20. IV. ORGAN RECIPIENTS
21. 13. Living with a Transplant 247
22. 14. Problematizing the Rhetoric of Gift-Giving in Transplantation Narratives 265
23. 15. Transplanting the Uterus 281
24. V. ALTERNATIVES
25. 16. Researching Xenotransplantation 305
26. 17. Envisioning 3D Bioprinting 317
27. 18. Considering the Role of Public Health 335
28. Contributors 349