Skip to content

Catalog

You are not logged in |Login

Add to My Lists

Return to Browse

More Information

Limit search to available items

Previous Record Next Record

Book Cover

book

Book

Book

Corporate Author

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Xenograft Transplantation: Ethical Issues and Public Policy.

Title Xenotransplantation : science, ethics, and public policy / Committee on Xenograft Transplantation: Ethical Issues and Public Policy, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine.

Publication Info.

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	174.25 I59X	Check Shelf

Description	vi, 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents	1. Setting the Stage. Study Process and Report Organization. Approaching Questions of Opportunities and Risks -- 2. Assessing the Science Base. Stages of the Immune Response. Novel Therapeutic Approaches -- 3. Infectious Disease Risk to Public Health Posed by Xenografting. Animal Infections and Xenotransplantation. Basis for Public Health Concern. Methods of Risk Evaluation. Detection Methods. Need for a Registry -- 4. Ethics and Public Policy. Patients, Ethics, and Society. Value and Use of Animals. Economic Issues Regarding Xenotransplants. Reviewing and Monitoring Xenotransplantation -- 5. Conclusions and Recommendations -- App. A. Workshop Agenda -- App. B. List of Participants -- App. C. Immunosuppression in Allotransplantation.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-102).
Form	Also available via the World Wide Web.
Subject	Xenografts -- Government policy -- United States.
	Xenografts -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Public Policy -- United States -- Congresses.
	Transplantation, Heterologous -- United States -- Congresses.
	Bioethics -- United States -- Congresses.
ISBN	0309055490

-->

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español