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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on October 1, 1988. The length of the article is 2465 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Anencephalic infants as sources of transplantable organs.
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1988
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v18Issue: n5Page: p28(3)

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Information on many genetic disorders, and the frequent new findings on them, has been extremely difficult to come by—until now. The “Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders” addresses the need for current, hard-to-find facts on emerging discoveries. The two-volume Encyclopedia, presented in a single alphabetical sequence, provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand, in language accessible to laypersons. The articles are arranged in a standardized format for quick comparison and ease of use, while non-disorder topics are covered in detail with extended entries. Students will want to consult the “Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders” for useful information on a range of well known disorders, including Down Syndrome, Trisomy, Hemophilia and Tourette Syndrome, and rarely seen diseases such as Meckel Syndrome, Neuraminidase Deficiency and Phenylketonuria.

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on March 1, 1990. The length of the article is 1790 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Case studies: c-section for organ donation. (includes commentaries)
Author: Sheldon T. Berkowitz
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1990
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v20Issue: n2Page: p22(3)

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on October 1, 1988. The length of the article is 5259 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Organs from anencephalic infants: an idea whose time has not yet come.
Author: Norman Fost
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1988
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v18Issue: n5Page: p5(6)

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A twenty-first century science will not easily answer to an eighteenth century philosophy. Abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, and organ transplantation all raise seemingly irresolvable issues. Koch offers new approaches--public and inclusive--that may resolve them. After explaining the limits of principled ethics, he offers new approaches and then uses them to examine two critical issues: how do we decide who will receive organ transplants and "the problem of Baby K," the care or non-care of "brain stem babies." This is a unique, innovative argument that challenges traditional bioethics' approach to complex problems. ... Read more

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superb book for people facing tough medical ethics issues
This is a superb book for nurses, doctors, social workers and family members wrestling with difficult medical ethical questions. Who should go first in the lineup to receive a heart transplant: a young child or afather of three?Should a person with Down's Syndrome be equal to others?How about a convicted criminal? Or someone age 75? Tom Koch explores thesedifficult questions and then offers a framework for health care workers andothers to help work through their own answers. He examines what it means tobe human and the sanctity of human life -- and how a better historicalunderstanding of these concepts and a reasoned methodology can help guideus as we make difficult life and death choices today. Koch does anexcellent job of weaving the practical and human with the technical andphilosophical. This is a must for those who are forced to make the choiceof who lives, and who dies. ... Read more

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The development of practices and attitudes to several categories of severly disabled subjects is discussed in this book with particular reference to their use as sources of tissues and organs for transplantation. It deals in the subject of brain death and the changes in approach over three decades including the extension of this category to other groups such as coma patients, anencephalic infants and so on. The book also discusses the current status of the use of foetal brain tissue. ... Read more