| Home Next Chapter Foreword Free Copy The Nasty Side of Organ Transplanting - Third Edition 2007 Norm Barber The Nasty Side Of Organ Transplanting The Cannibalistic Nature of Transplant Medicine Norm Barber Third Edition 2007 “Transplant technology may be compared to an evil genie let out of a bottle and now won’t return.” Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Organs Watch Copyright 2007 Norm Barber, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, standardoil@hotmail.com; gumflat88@hotmail.com . All Rights Reserved. This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the author’s written prior permission. However, a single copy may be printed from an electronic database for the exclusive use of the person authorising or doing the printing. More generous copying and printing rights may be given upon application to the author, who encourages the wide reading of this text. Acknowledgments Dr David Wainwright Evans, Cardiologist, Queens' College, Cambridge, U.K.; Dr David Hill, Emeritus Consultant Anaesthetist, Cambridgeshire, U.K.; Dr R.G. Nilges, Emeritus Neurosurgeon, Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago, U.S.A.; Associate Professor Cicero Galli Coimbra, Head of the Neurology and Neurosurgery Department at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; the late Dr Phillip Keep, former Consultant Anaesthetist, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, U.K; Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Director, Organs Watch, University of California; Associate Professor Mario C. Deng of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; Dr Yoshio Watanabe, Consultant Cardiologist, Chiba Tokushu-kai Hospital, Funbashi, Japan; Duane Horton of OrganKeeper, Rhode Island, U.S.A.; Dr Peter Doyle of the British Department of Health; Berendina Schermers van Straalen, Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 17, 3300AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands; David Brockschmidt and Vita Vitols of Skye, Australia, Anton Keijzer, Susan Mitchell, The Staff at the Port Adelaide Library; Karen Herbertt of the South Australia Organ Donation Agency; Bob Spieldenner of the United Network for Organ Sharing, U.S.A.; The Staff at the Disability Information and Resource Centre, Adelaide. Contents Foreword to the Third Edition 1. An Invented Death 2. Donors May Need Anaesthetic 3. The Apnoea "Brain Death" Test May Kill Patient 4. Organ Rejection 5. Battle for the Body 6. Aggressive Hospital Harvest Teams 7. Harvest Time 8. The Nurse’s Tale 9. Types of Donors 10. Donation after Cardiac Death 11. Futile transplants and flexible survival statistics 12. Body Parts and Business 13. Coercion, Live Donation and Slippery Ethics 14. Deception by Organ Donor Agencies 15. Australian Transplant Legislation 16. Avoiding Harvest Time 17. Societal Consensus and the Slippery Slope 18. Terminology and Gender Donor Rates 19. Getting A Transplant 20. Religion, Culture and Harvesting 21. The Politics of Suppressed Death Statistics 22. A Short History of Human and Xeno Transplanting 23. Trusting Your Hospital 24. Organ Selling, Organ Theft 25. Sociological Implications Appendix One: Some Comments on Testing for Brain Death Appendix Two: Some Comments on Treating Brain Injury End Notes |