ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Xenotransplantation, Moral Agency, Chronic Pain
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Book review: summary 30, main argument(s) of the book and its thesis (1st or 2nd paragraph, evaluation 50, beyond a description of the book arguments raised in the book, give an analysis not a description. What are the consequences of a medicalized definition. Do you know how biomedicine evolved to this current situation. Sharp: organ transfer (socio-medical process: organ procurement, official channels, black market, organ donation, (cid:312)brain-dead(cid:313) cadaveric (cid:309)donor, living (cid:309)donor(cid:310) Kin (kaufman et al. article: non-kin, organ transplant, hospital transplant units, other places. All involved parties need to embrace brain death definition in: Organ donor = extraordinary category of person: brain damage = brain death = death, body under life support (sustain organs, brain-death definition (fighting to save this life fighting for saving others lives) From brain-death to other forms of death ((cid:312)non-heart beating cadavers(cid:313)) 14 year old nicholas breach (terminal brain tumor) arranged death for donation. Prisoners and elders (loosening up the inclusion criteria)
