Social Work and Transplantation of Human Organs

by Surjit Singh Dhooper

The possibility of treating patients with organ replacement therapy has created a new frontier in medical care. Hospitals have to deal with such vital issues as selecting potential recipients of transplants, ensuring equity in allocating organs, pre- and peri-transplantation care of patients, and post-transplantation follow-up of organ recipients. The decisions pertaining to these issues often fall to social workers, who, with their bifocal concern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275943380
• ISBN13: 9780275943387
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"