Your Life or Mine How Geoethics Can Resolve the Conflict Between Public and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation 1st Edition by Martine Rothblatt ISBN 9781138709492 1138709492

Your Life or Mine How Geoethics Can Resolve the Conflict Between Public and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation 1st Edition by Martine Rothblatt – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9781138709492 ,1138709492
Full download Your Life or Mine How Geoethics Can Resolve the Conflict Between Public and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 1138709492
ISBN 13: 9781138709492
Author: Martine Rothblatt

Your Life or Mine How Geoethics Can Resolve the Conflict Between Public and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation 1st Edition Table of contents:

I Introduction: The Organ Shortage is a Major Problem That Defies Conventional Solutions

Mind the Gap

Measurements of Demand and Supply

Demand for Hearts, Lungs, Livers and Kidneys

Historical, Current and Prospective Supply of Vital Organs

Where Have All the Organs Gone?

Presumed Consent

Permanent Vegetative State (PVS)

Elective Ventilated Donors

Non-Heart-Beating Donors

Improved Allocation and Infrastructure

Selling Your Body: The Status of Marketplace Solutions to the Problem

Supply Side Economics Justification for Banning Organ Sales

Bioethical Reasons Such as Autonomy for Banning Organ Sales

Public Revulsion Reason for Banning Organ Sales

Conclusion

II Brave New Organs: The Status of Technological Solutions to the Problem

Introduction

Some Assembly Required: Status of Wholly Artificial Organs

The ‘Wholly’ Grail: A Total (Not Partial) Artificial Heart

Cardiac Assistance Devices – Part of an Organ Covers Part of the Gap

Summary of Wholly Artificial Organ Technology

Human-Cyborg Relations: Status of Bio-Artificial Organs

Bio-Artificial Livers

Growing Your Own: Status of Wholly Bio-Engineered Organs

Organogenesis

Xenotransplantation

The Science of Xenotransplantation

First Stage of Failure: Hyperacute Rejection (“HAR”)

First Stage of Xeno-Success: Transgenic Animals

Second Stage of Failure: Delayed Xenograft Rejection

Second Stage of Success: Anti-Pyrimidine Biosynthesis Drugs

Third and Fourth Stages of Failure: Acute Cellular and Chronic Rejection

Third and Fourth Stages of Success: Ever Better Immunosuppressives and Monitoring

Realtechnik and Realpolitik: Why Xenografts Will Win

Conclusion

III Look Before You Leap: Technological Risks of Xenotransplantation

Introduction

Blood Sucking Host Hoppers: Zoonotic and Xenogeneic Bugs

Theoretical Likelihood of Xenogeneic Diseases

Practical Experience with Xenogeneic Infections

Scientist as Lawyer: Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence

Mi Casa Es Su Casa? Issues of Public Health Acceptability

The U.K. Approach

The U.S. Approach

Stasi Medicine? – How Surveillance Can Coexist with Human Rights

Consent, Informed or Presumed?

Community Consent

Life Trumps Autonomy?

Conclusion

IV Of Pigs and Men: Issues of Speciesism and Chimerism

Introduction

Are All Animals Created Equal?

We Feel Your Pain

Agreeing to Disagree

Singer: Weigh Animals Like Humans

Regan: Don’t Play the Weighing Game with Life

Frey: Humans Outweigh Animals by a Longshot

Leahy: Weigh it in Words

How Much Does Private Language Count?

Physiological Signs of Pain

Only Language Separates Us From Them

Giving Darwin Some Respect

Chimerism and Its Discontents

Piled High and Deep: The Realities of Pork

Transgressing the Pig Genome

Transgressing Humanity

Transgressive Psychology

Conclusion: No Revolution Likely on the Animal Pharm

V The Right to Life: Society’s Obligation to Provide Health Care and Xenotransplantation

Introduction

Ought Implies Kant

Berlin’s Polarization and the Power of Negative Thinking

Dealing in John Rawls: Primary Goods in a Just Society

Don’t Forget About the Health Benefits!

Doyal and Gough’s Theory of Human Needs

Why Must My Rights Be Everyone’s Rights?

Giving an Inch and Taking a Mile: Can Health Care Include Xenotransplantation?

No Religious Preference

Conclusion

VI Is Xenotransplantation Worth the Risk?

Introduction

Truth or Consequences: Incommensurability of Negativities

Garbage In, Garbage Out: Inestimability of Probabilities

Antibiotics: Better Not Sorry Than Safe

We Tolerate the Risks for the Sake of the Benefits

Containing Pandora: Russian Doll Treatment of Recombinant DNA

The Asilomar Story

“Devil’s Doctrine” Debunked

Science is Neither Above the Law Nor Apart from Society

Applying Asilomar to Xenotransplantation

The Precautionary Principle

Asilomar-Type Rules and Antibiotic-Type Risks on a Global Stage

A Little Bit of Risk is Not a Bad Thing

Risk Bearers of the World, Unite!

Conclusion

VII A Geoethical Solution to the Conflict Between Private and Public Interests in Xenotransplantation

Introduction

Practical Implementation of Geoethical Xenotransplantation

Who Will Do What To Whom?

Problems with Minimal Competence Regimes

Maximal Competence Regime is More Realistic

Not Pie in the Sky

Financial Elements of a Global Xenotransplantation Control

Certification Costs are Minimal

Surveillance Costs are Basic Global Health Care Costs

The Xenograft Tax

Legal Pathways to a Global Xenotransplantation Control

Sentinel Organizations

Participation Sectors

Not the First Time the Rich Tax Themselves for Global Benefit

Conclusion

VIII Summary

People also search for Your Life or Mine How Geoethics Can Resolve the Conflict Between Public and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation 1st Edition:

    
trajectory of your life meme
    
mine your own gems virginia
    
virtuous life aristotle
    
with your life
    
without your love george harrison

Tags: Martine Rothblatt, Geoethics, Public, Private Interests, Xenotransplantation