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Ethics and organ transfer: a Merleau-Pontean perspective.
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PMID:  19343498     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The article's aim is to explore human hand allograft recipients' postoperative experience of disownership and their gradual experience of their new hand as theirs, with the aid of the work of the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Many have used a Merleau-Pontinian perspective in the analysis of embodiment. Far fewer have used it in medico-ethical analysis. Drew Leder's phenomenologically based ethics of organ donation and organ sale is an exception to this tendency. The article's second aim is to examine Leder's phenomenologically based ethics of organ donation and organ sale. Though I find parts of Leder's approach promising, I also elaborate a line of reasoning that draws on Merleau-Ponty, that does allow us to argue for certain kinds of organ donation and against organ sale-and that avoids some of the problems with Leder's approach. This alternative route builds on the concept of the integrity of the body-subject.
Authors:
Kristin Zeiler
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2009-04-03
Journal Detail:
Title:  Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy     Volume:  17     ISSN:  1065-3058     ISO Abbreviation:  Health Care Anal     Publication Date:  2009 Jun 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2009-05-15     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9432537     Medline TA:  Health Care Anal     Country:  England    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  110-22     Citation Subset:  H    
Affiliation:
Division of Health and Society, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linkoping, Sweden. kristin.zeiler@liu.se
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