| Description |
1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; TRANSPLANTATION: A TEAM APPROACH; The Chaplain's Role: A Cardiac Surgeon's View; Conventional Cardiac Surgery; The Transplant and Artificial Heart Patient; Identity, Role, and Task: A Core Perspective on Pastoral Care with Cardiothoracic Transplantations; The Heart Transplant Recipient-Coordinator Relationship: Reactions to the Transplant Process; Case History I; Case History II; Case History III; The Influence of Psychosocial Factors in the Heart Transplantation Decision Process; Introduction; Patient Selection Criteria |
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Candidate Selection in One Transplant ProgramNext Steps; The Ventricular Assist Device Patient; Introduction; Historical Background; Description of VAD Types; Survival Results; Complications; Psychosocial Issues; Conclusions; Waiting: Pastoral Care to the Cardiac Bridge to Transplant Patient; Implanting the Artificial Device; Waiting with the Device; Post Surgical Transplant Phase; Conclusion; ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS; Contesting the Boundary Between Life and Death: OrganTransplantation and the Identity of the Christian Community; Introduction; Social Order, Body, and Medicine |
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Christian Practices, Bodies, and Alternative MeaningsConclusion; Are There Any Limits to Scarcity?; What to Do About Scarcity; Animals as a Source of Organs and Tissues; Ethical Issues Raised by Xenografting; Hard at Death's Door; "Spare" Parts; Unexpected Parts; Paying for Parts; Recognizing Limits; Organ Donation: A Catholic and Interfaith Perspective on Its Ethical Warrants and Contemporary Public Policy Concerns; An Interfaith Perspective on Organ Donation; Increasing the Supply of Organs for Transplantation-Issues of Procurement and Distribution |
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Themes of Covenant and the Common Good as Resources for Education on Organ DonationPASTORAL AND THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES; The Discerning Heart: The Psalms as Pastoral Resource in Ministry to Potential Organ Recipients and Their Families; The Heart: Our Vitalist Organ; The Heart of the Psalms; Pastor of the Discerning Heart; Pastor of the Regenerated Heart; The Pastor: Instrument of Hope; Theological Reflections on Organ Donation and Transplantation; Organ Transplantation and Tissue Donation: A Theological Look; Creation as Co-Creators with God; The Relief of Human Suffering |
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The Resurrection and TransplantsParallels Between the Eucharist and Organ Transplants; Theological Significance of General Attribution Theory to Transplantation; Conclusion; About the Contributors |
| Summary |
Enter the world of organ transplantation and develop a new understanding of processes and techniques for working effectively with patients in this increasing medical population. This multidisciplinary overview of organ transplantation contains chapters by major figures in the medical arena, internationally known bioethics writers, and experienced chaplains from the clinical setting of transplantation, as well as respected pastoral theologians. The authors, who include Art Caplan, Donald Capps, and Jack Copeland, explain transplantation completely for the nonmedical person and delve into the my |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317764847 |
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1317764846 |
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