Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval (Value Inquiry Book / Values in Bioethics, 172)

✍ Scribed by Charles C. Hinkley II

• Publisher: Brill | Rodopi
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Edition: Expanded
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: A Philosophical Framework
1 Dilemmas, Conflicts, and Residue
1 Terminology
2 Moral Residue
3 Epistemology and Ontology of Dilemmas
4 Dilemmas and Deontic Logic
5 Guilt, Regret, and Remorse
6 Autonomy and Wrongdoing
7 Survivor's Guilt
8 The Nature of Emotion
9 Residual Requirements to Act
10 Can We Do without Residue?
11 Intuitively Knowing Dilemmas
12 Conclusion
2 Medical Ethics and Its Limitations
1 Cliff's Choice
2 Beauchamp and Childress's Principlism
3 Virtue Ethics
4 Feminist Bioethics
5 Case Analysis
6 Engelhardt's Postmodern Libertarianism
7 Gert, Culver, and Clouser on Common Morality
8 Cliff's Choice Revisited
9 Conclusion
3 Pluralism, Incommensurability, and Weighing
1 Moral Pluralism
2 Incommensurability
3 Covering Values
4 The Plurality of Values
5 The Calculation of Values
6 The Irresolvability of Conflict
7 Education and Skill
8 Merited Desire Strength
9 Weighing Our Options
10 Conclusion
Part 2: Conflicts of Organ Retrieval
4 Transplant Recipients' Quality of Life
1 Heart Transplants
2 Liver Transplants
3 Kidney Transplants
4 Conclusion
5 Can We Wrong the Dead?
1 Bioethics and Patient Autonomy
2 The Pitcher-Feinberg Thesis
3 Callahan's Challenge
4 Serafini's Thesis
5 Symbolic Action and the Preferences of the Living
6 For the Living
7 Conclusion
6 Defining Death
1 Historical Background for the Whole Brain Definition of Death
2 Problems with the Whole Brain Definition of Death
3 The Higher Brain Definition
4 Revisiting the Whole Brain Definition
5 The Cardiopulmonary Definition
6 Renewed Challenges to Whole Brain Death
7 Is Defining Death a Moral Issue?
8 Conclusion
7 The Selling of Organs
1 Models of Organ Vending
2 Cultural Values and Meaning
3 Financial Incentives and the Supply of Organs
4 Commodification
5 Defenders of Organ Sales and Their Critics
6 Risks of Living Donation
7 Respect for Persons
8 Cadaveric Organ Sales and the Altruistic Tradition
9 Conclusion
8 Xenografts
1 Historical Background
2 Qualitative Distinctions and Human Privilege
3 Risks to Third Parties
4 Responding to Risk
5 The Prospects of Xenografts
6 Conclusion
9 Stem Cell Research
1 United States Policy
2 The Moral Status of Early Human Life Forms
3 Property Rights
4 Adult Stem Cells
5 iPSCs
6 Conclusion
Part 3: A Philosophical Response
10 The Regulative Principle
1 Marcus's Regulative Principle
2 Mothersill on the Regulative Principle
3 The Regulative Principle and Dilemmas
4 The Regulative Principle and Conflicts
5 Implications for Prevention
6 Prevention
7 Conclusion
11 Constructive Pluralism
1 Rationality amid Incommensurability
2 Routine Retrieval, Presumed Consent, and Familial Consent
3 The Definition of Death
4 Selling Organs
5 Xenotransplants
6 Stem Cell Research
7 Additional Strategies
8 Sets of Strategies
9 Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index