Handbook of Neurosurgery
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on issues relating to organ transplantation is presented as a series of essays organized into four sections. The book uses the story of Jesica Santillan as an introduction to the types of attitudes, perspectives, and ethical dilemmas that organ transplantation can fuel. Santillan was an undocumented immigrant teenager from Mexico who received a heart lung transplant at Duke University Medical Center in 2003. Unfortunately, the organs used were not the correct blood type. To save the girl’s life, a second transplant was performed days later with a proper set of organs. Sadly, Jesica’s already exhausted body was beyond repair and she died soon after. Whose fault was it that such a grave medical mistake was made? How could a second set of organs be obtained so quickly? Is it right to let an undocumented immigrant receive an organ transplant at all? Questions such as these are explored further in essays whose topics range from the racial tensions surrounding organ transplantation in the 1960s and ’70s to a detailed overview of the organ allocation process of today, from the realities of the black market of organ trade to market-oriented medical ethics, from the details of harvesting organs to all that can go wrong during and after transplantation. The essays do a great job of formulating their overall conclusions in the context of Jesica’s bungled transplant, a familiar home base to anyone reading this book. The topics discussed in A Death Retold are greatly interdisciplinary, and, not surprisingly, the authors include anthropologists, medical ethicists, historians, transplant surgeons, and health lawyers. They have successfully connected economics, sociology, history, ethics, and medicine in the framework of organ transplantation. If you are interested in any aspect of organ transplantation, this is a fascinating book to read.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 81 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008