Living Donor Organ Transplantation: Key Legal and Ethical Issues

by Austen Garwood-Gowers

Book Overview

This book was originally published in 1999. When one or more essential organs failed, the consequence used to be death. However, conventional medicine has developed artificial means of extending life, the most successful of which is transplantation. The most common form of organ to be transplanted is a kidney which will, on average, function for about a decade in its recipient. Organ transplantation as a whole is widely practiced in most countries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367148722
• ISBN13: 9780367148720
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"