Ethics and the kidney / Norman Levinsky.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: 272p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780192631596 (hbk.) :
- 0192631594 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Kidneys -- Transplantation -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Chronic renal failure -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Medical ethics
- Ethics, Medical
- Kidney Failure, Chronic -- therapy
- Health Care Rationing
- Patient Selection -- ethics
- Renal Dialysis
- Kidney Transplantation
- Internationality
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Tissue and Organ Procurement
- 174.25 21
- R724
- WJ 21
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical perspective / Richard A. Rettig -- Ethical theory and principles / Ronald Baker Miller -- Key legal issues / Bernard M. Dickens -- Must (should) all ESRD patients be treated? / Eli A. Friedman -- Equity and patient autonomy in dialysis / Norman G. Levinsky -- End of life care in dialysis / Kerry W. Bowman and Peter A. Singer -- Acquisition of kidneys for transplantation / Raymond Hoffenberg -- Xenotransplantation : an ethical dilemma / Norman G. Levinsky -- Allocation of kidneys for transplantation / Robert A. Sells -- Genetics : ethical issues in kidney disease / Rita Kielstein and Hans-Martin Sass -- Special issues in the care of children / Howard Trachtman ... [et al.] -- Societal allocation of resources for patients with ESRD / Daniel Callahan -- Economic issues in nephrology practice : ethical dilemmas / William M. Bennett -- Japan / Atsushi Asai ... [et al.] -- China / Lei-Shi Li and Xiao-Dan Yao -- India / Vivekanand Jha and Kirpal S. Chugh -- Africa / Sarala Naicker.
This text aims to provide a comprehensive review of ethical issues in clinical nephrology. It examines the historical perspective, followed by a consideration of legal issues. Specific ethical issues in nephrology are discussed in detail.
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