Overview
- Provides a comprehensive and integrated legal, ethical and empirical analysis of regenerative tissue donation by children
- Couples a legal exposition of the donor child’s position with the medico-ethical reality of clinical practice
- Presents a multi-faceted and nuanced view of the donor child’s position
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- ethics of tissue donation
- tissue donation
- tissue transplantation
- children's rights
- medical ethics
- human tissue and transplantation legislation
- child tissue donor
- children in the courts
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- organ donation
- organ transplantation
- parental consent
- child assent
- regenerative tissue
- stem cell donor
- bone marrow
- peripheral blood stem cell
- hematopoietic stem cell
- bioethics
- donor children
About this book
The book couples a legal exposition of the donor child’s position with the medico-ethical reality of clinical practice. In recent years, a growing body of literature concerning the clinical experiences and outcomes for child donors has emerged. This book adds to this by examining another dimension – the regulatory frameworks at play. It examines the ethical arguments for and against children acting as tissue donors and provides an original analysis of the legal and non-legal regulatory frameworks governing children’s participation in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia. It combines these doctrinal and theoretical approaches with insights into clinical practice gained from the results of qualitative research conducted with health professionals.
The analysis inevitably explores the more general issues of children’s right to make medical decisions, the role of parents in decision-making, the value of the best interests test and alternative (legal and ethical) standards, rights of participation of children before the courts, and the role of law and other forms of regulation in a clinical context.
Reviews
“This is an excellent introductory book. It is written at a high enough level to be helpful to medical professionals, while parts of it are still accessible to families who may have concerns about child tissue donation. It provides important information from the perspective of healthcare workers and is most appropriate for those with a medical background.” (Sarah K. Sawicki, Doody's Book Reviews, April 26, 2019)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children as Tissue Donors
Book Subtitle: Regulatory Protection, Medical Ethics, and Practice
Authors: Shih-Ning Then
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3047-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3046-9Published: 09 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4814-3Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3047-6Published: 29 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 245
Topics: Medical Law, Bioethics, Transplant Surgery, Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering