Search for dissertations about: "Organ donation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words Organ donation.
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1. Virtue Ethics, Bioethics, and the Ownership of Biological Material
Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to show how some ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics can be interpreted and used as a productive way to approach a number of pressing issues in bioethics. Articles I-II introduce, and endorse, a social constructivist perspective on rights (as opposed to the more traditional natural rights idea). READ MORE
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2. No Heroics, Please : Mapping Deceased Donation Practices in a Catalan Hospital
Abstract : This thesis presents an in-depth ethnographic mapping of deceased donation in a Catalan hospital. A unique site in terms of leading edge technoscientific practices, high rates of donation and its consolidated specialised team of transplant coordinators (TCs). READ MORE
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3. Shining a light on organ donation after death : on various aspects influencing organ donation
Abstract : Introduction: The willingness to donate organs after death is widespread in our country, Sweden. Nevertheless, the donation rate is rather low and patients still die while waiting for an organ. One of the obstacles to organ donation is that people tend not to tell anyone about their decision. READ MORE
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4. Utilization and allocation of organs for transplantation - medical and ethical aspects
Abstract : Great efforts have been made to find solutions to the shortage of organs, such as extending the donor pool by accepting so-called marginal donors and development of transplantation of organs from animals (xenotransplantation, xt). Due to the scarcity of organs, there is a long tradition of prioritizing among patients on the waiting list for transplantation. READ MORE
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5. Attitudes towards organ donor advocacy among Swedish intensive and critical care nurses
Abstract : End-of-Life Care in the intensive and critical care unit (ICU) involves the rare situation of caring for brain dead persons who, by their death, become potential organ donors (POD). A consequence might be that end-of-life care continues into after-death care in order to facilitate organ donation (OD). READ MORE