The Transplant Patient: Biological, Psychiatric and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation [Hardcover]

An authoritative and interdisciplinary review of the psychosocial, psychiatric and ethical aspects of organ transplantation.Over the last forty years transplantation has developed from a laboratory based experimental procedure to a clinical commonplace. Transplantation raises issues of patient screening and selection, quality of life for recipients, living donors and their families, cognitive changes associated with transplantation, ethical considerations, and the impact of immunological and pharmacological changes asociated with the procedure. This complex of issues affects clinicians from an range of disciplines and is the focus of this book, an interdisciplinary approach to transplantation.Over the last forty years transplantation has developed from a laboratory based experimental procedure to a clinical commonplace. Transplantation raises issues of patient screening and selection, quality of life for recipients, living donors and their families, cognitive changes associated with transplantation, ethical considerations, and the impact of immunological and pharmacological changes asociated with the procedure. This complex of issues affects clinicians from an range of disciplines and is the focus of this book, an interdisciplinary approach to transplantation.Over the past forty years transplantation has developed from a laboratory based experimental procedure to a clinical commonplace. Transplantation raises issues of patient screening and selection, quality of life for recipients, living donors and their families, cognitive changes associated with transplantation, ethical considerations, and the impact of immunological and pharmacological changes associated with the procedure. This complex of issues affects clinicians from a wide range of disciplines and is the focus of consultation-liaison psychiatry and this book. Pittsburgh, where many of the contributors are based, was and is still a pioneering center for organ transplantation. Dr. Thomas Starzl, who gives an lƒ!