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Transplant : A Heart Surgeon's Account of the Life-and-Death
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| Title | Transplant : A Heart Surgeon's Account of the Life-and-Death |
| ASIN | 0449219054 -
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| Category | Written By Candidate/Ghostwriter |
| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modified | RP - March 23, 2005 02:01pm |
| Description | "And, although Frist writes frequently about the ethical issues surrounding transplants--for example, the question of when death begins--he approaches these issues in starkly scientific terms, with little patience for religious objections.
"Near the end of the book, for example, Frist suggests changing the legal definition of 'brain death' to include anencephalic babies, who are born with a fatal neurological disorder but show just the slightest hint of brain-stem activity. Such a change would make it possible to harvest their organs for transplant--something the Catholic Church and pro-life groups oppose. 'Three thousand anencephalic babies were born a year, enough to solve our demand many times over--but we never used them.'" |
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