Teaching Ethics in Organ Transplantation and Tissue Donation
Cases and Movies
Silke Schicktanz
Claudia Wiesemann
9781935603061
85 pages
University of Akron Press
Overview
Organ transplantation allows modern surgeons to give new life to chronically ill patients. At the same time, the new opportunities raise ethical questions concerning human identity and the definition of the human body. These concerns do not play out the same in all cultures or in every situation. This collection of thirty case studies illustrates the range of global and local, ethical, social, and cultural problems associated with organ transplantation. The collection also provides a list of popular movies and websites to aid instructors and their students. This work is aimed at educators in medicine, health care, philosophy, and religious studies.
Author Bio
Silke Schicktanz is a professor of culture and ethics in biomedicine at the Institute for Ethics and the History of Medicine at the University of Göttingen. Claudia Wiesemann is the director of the Institute for Ethics and the History of Medicine at the University of Göttingen. Sabine Wöhlke is a researcher at the Institute for Ethics and the History of Medicine at the University of Göttingen.
