| Autor: | Vincent F. Maher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Daughter Health (social science) business.industry Health Policy media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Medical law medicine.disease Education Feeling Philosophy of medicine Family medicine medicine Managed care Assisted suicide Intensive care medicine business Kidney transplantation Dialysis media_common |
| Zdroj: | Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 3:179-183 |
| ISSN: | 1386-7423 |
| DOI: | 10.1023/a:1009991930649 |
| Popis: | Americans have recently had thrust into their faces multiple media borne medical and social ethics dilemmas ranging from Dr. Kevorkian's euthanizing a patient on national television to payments by managed care providers for experimental medical treatments,to the nationally telecast situation which this paper will attempt to address. The case at hand concerns a minor in need of a repeat(third) kidney transplant who has been offered a kidney by her father. He also provided a kidney for her second kidney transplant some years ago. The teenage girl went into her current kidney failure/organ rejection state because, feeling well, she stopped taking her antirejection medications. Her father appears to understand the consequences of this offer and is willing nonetheless to donate his remaining kidney to his daughter. His ex-wife and daughter want the kidney and will take it knowing what it will do to him. Of additional interest is that he is incarcerated as a prisoner for a crime for which he will be eligible for parole in the not distant future. This means that although altruistically self-induced, the State will become financially responsible for his medical care and dialysis treatments. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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