Organ Shortage Today: A Vital Health and Socio-Political Issue
This book argues that society has the power to solve an urgent, persistent health crisis: the unjust death of patients waiting for an organ, particularly from a deceased donor, to save their lives.
Although the therapeutic and surgical technical advances achieved by organ transplants are significant in their statistical results, society’s response to donation has generally remained underwhelming. The waiting lists are endless, and many patients succumb before a lifesaving organ is found.
In this book, leading specialists in transplant medicine from 10 countries offer an exhaustive analysis of the problems surrounding organ transplants and the current insufficient social behaviour towards organ donation. It describes the evolution of transplantation and its associated medical, ethical-legal, psychosocial, and religious problems, as well as the educational proposals that have accompanied this medical practice over time and the possibility of conceptually and practically renewing some of them.
Félix Cantarovich is a Doctor of Medicine. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Transplantology and Director of the postgraduate course in Transplantology at the Catholic University of Argentina. He founded the Argentine Transplant Program and served as secretary of the International Transplant Society. He has received awards such as Pioneer in Transplants from the International Transplant Society and the Latin American Transplant Society, and was nominated fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Also an advisor in xenotransplantation to his Holiness John Paul II, he was nominated Distinguished Citizen of the city of Buenos Aires.
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Josefina Maria Alberú
Javier Almela-Baeza
Ashley Baquero
Olivier Bastien
Clive O. Callender
Félix Cantarovich
Nelson Alberto Castro
Beatriz Febrero
Zulma A. González Caraballo
Luis Morales-Otero
Elmi Muller
Ramírez Pablo
Barbara Krystyna Pierscionek
Ruben Revello
Ernesto Rivé-Morra
Eduardo Santiago-Delpin
Adnan Sharif
Marion Siebelink
Jean-Louis Touraine
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