1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464472103321

Titolo

The ethics of organ transplantation / / edited by Steven J. Jensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Catholic University of America Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-8132-1933-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JensenSteven J. <1964->

Disciplina

617.9/54

Soggetti

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Moral and ethical aspects

Medical ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Primum Non Nocere A Contrarian Ethic?""; ""2. Controversies surrounding Brain Death""; ""3. Ontological Status of Whole-Brain-Dead Individuals""; ""4. Consciousness and Aesthetics in Decisions concerning Organ Donation Using Anencephalic Neonates""; ""5. Organ Donation following Cardiac Death: Conflicts of Interest, Ante Mortem Interventions, and Determinations of Death""; ""6. Ethical Concerns with Rapid Organ Recovery Ambulances""; ""7. Allow the Dying to Donate: Replace the Dead Donor Rule""

""8. A Catholic View on the Dead Donor Rule""""9. Killing and Letting Die""; ""10. Organ Donation and the Beatific Vision: Thomist Moral Theology Confronts the Tide of Relativism""; ""11. The Meaning of Gift in Organ Transplantation""; ""12. Ethics of Contact with Chinaon Transplants""; ""13. Gestational Surrogacy and Live Organ Donation: A Contrast""; ""14. Organ Transplants: A Study on Bioethics and the Ordinary Magisterium""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

"An ever-increasing demand for organs, with over 100,000 people on waiting lists, has driven a relentless search for new sources of organs. In 1995 the American Medical Association supported taking organs from anencephalic infants, children born without brains. In 1999 the



Chinese government began removing organs from members of the politically outcast religious group Falun Gong, making a lucrative profit from sales to foreigners. Recently in Belgium physicians have euthanized a patient by removing her organs. The search for fresh organs began much earlier, in 1968, when death was redefined, so that well-preserved organs could be removed from brain dead individuals. The early 1990's saw the introduction of donation after cardiac death, in which organs are taken from individuals whose hearts could still be resuscitated. Over the last two decades various countries have attempted markets in the sale of organs". --Backcover

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792448603321

Autore

Carruthers Susan L (Susan Lisa)

Titolo

Cold War captives [[electronic resource] ] : imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing / / Susan L. Carruthers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-77264-3

9786612772641

0-520-94479-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Disciplina

909.82/5

Soggetti

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Cold War - Social aspects - United States

Captivity narratives

Political prisoners - History - 20th century

Repatriation - History - 20th century

Defection - History - 20th century

Brainwashing - History - 20th century

Cold War in mass media

Cold War in motion pictures

Cold War in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Between Camps -- 1. Upper East Side Story: Repatriation, Romance, and Cold War Mobilization -- 2. Bloc-Busters: The Politics and Pageantry of Escape from the East -- 3. Stalin's Slaves: The Rise of Gulag Consciousness -- 4. First Captive in a Hot War: The Case of Robert Vogeler -- 5. Prisoners of Pavlov: Korean War Captivity and the Brainwashing Scare -- Epilogue: Returns and Repercussions -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This provocative history of early cold war America recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. Headlines were dominated by stories of Soviet slave laborers, brainwashed prisoners in Korea, and courageous escapees like Oksana Kasenkina who made a "leap for freedom" from the Soviet Consulate in New York. Full of fascinating and forgotten stories, Cold War Captives explores a central dimension of American culture and politics-the postwar preoccupation with captivity. "Menticide," the calculated destruction of individual autonomy, struck many Americans as a more immediate danger than nuclear annihilation. Drawing upon a rich array of declassified documents, movies, and reportage-from national security directives to films like The Manchurian Candidate-his book explores the ways in which east-west disputes over prisoners, repatriation, and defection shaped popular culture. Captivity became a way to understand everything from the anomie of suburban housewives to the "slave world" of drug addiction. Sixty years later, this era may seem distant. Yet, with interrogation techniques derived from America's communist enemies now being used in the "war on terror," the past remains powerfully present.