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T3e „The Nasty Side of Organ
Transplanting“ Third Edition 2007
The Third
Edition contains a considearbly enlarged and actualised text.
A chapter on donation after "heart-death" (Non-Heart-Beating Donors)
has been added.
Link: www.geocities.com/organdonate is a very committed, extensive, and comprehensive
homepage dealing with the topic “Organ Transplanting”. The visit of this site is highly
recommended. Amongst other brilliant
articles, the following text can be found there:
„The Nasty Side of Organ Transplanting“, an extremely well
informed and consequently critical approach to the horrifying reality of organ
transplanting. Before
deciding in favour or against an organ transplant, it will be crucially helpful
to read this text. The amount of material and insider knowledge is
unsurpassable.
Here the table of contents of that text is presented, with kind
permission of Norman Barber. The text itself is still more shocking than the
table of contents ever can be!
Foreword to the Third Edition
1. An Invented Death
2. Donors May Need Anaesthetic
3. The Apnoea "Brain Death" Test May
Kill Patient
4. Organ Rejection
5. Battle for the Body
6. Aggressive Hospital Harvest Teams
7. Harvest Time
8. The Nurse’s Tale
9. Types of Donors
10. Donation after Cardiac Death
11. Futile transplants and flexible survival
statistics
12. Body Parts and Business
13. Coercion, Live Donation and Slippery Ethics
14. Deception by Organ Donor Agencies
15. Australian Transplant Legislation
16. Avoiding Harvest Time
17. Societal Consensus and the Slippery Slope
18. Terminology and
Gender Donor Rates
19. Getting a Transplant
20. Religion, Culture and Harvesting
21. The Politics of Suppressed Death Statistics
22. A Short History of Human and Xeno
Transplanting
23. Trusting Your Hospital
24. Organ Selling, Organ Theft
25. Sociological Implications
Appendix 1: Some
Comments on Testing for Brain Death
Appendix 2: Some
Comments on Treating Brain Injury
End Notes
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