Gift of Life: The Effect of Organ Transplantation on Individual, Family, and Societal Dynamics

Analying one of the most dramatic of the new medical technologies, organ transplantation, Gift of Life covers those aspects that have general implications for public policy and sociological theory, and describes the social-psychological impact of kidney transplantation itself. Gift of Life begins with an examination of the overall, unresolved ethical issues related to kidney transplantation -- the problem of selecting patients for a scarce therapy, the problem of withholding treatment from patients of greater physical and psychological risk, and the issue of utiliing living related kidney donors vs. cadaver donors. Gift of Life concentrates on organ donors and their families, and studies the effect of this type of extreme altruism.Susan D. Klein Marine is the author of 'Gift of Life: The Effect of Organ Transplantation on Individual, Family, and Societal Dynamics', published 1987 under ISBN 9780887386848 and ISBN 0887386849.