In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary approach to fundamental issues like the determination of death and the dead donor rule; the divisive case of using anencephalic infants as organ donors; the sale of cadaveric or live organs; possible strategies for increasing the number of available organs, including market solutions and the idea of presumed consent; and questions surrounding transplant tourism and "gaming the system" by using the media to gain access to organs. Timely and balanced, Replacement Parts is a first-of-its-kind collection aimed at surgeons, physicians, nurses, and other professionals involved in this essential lifesaving activity that is often fraught with ethical controversy.

Contributions by: Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, Elysa R. Koppelman, James J. McCartney, Robert D. Truog, Franklin G. Miller, Scott D. Halpern, Frank C. Chaten, Winston Chiong, David Magnus, Ben S. Wilfond, Arthur L. Caplan, Karol Wojtyła, D. Alan Shewmon, James L. Bernat, Dominic Wilkinson, Julian Savulescu, Kristin Zeiler, Elisabeth Furberg, Gunnar Tufveson, Staffen Welin, James J. McCartney, Alexander M. Capron, Richard M. Zaner, Arthur L. Caplan, Canadian Paediatric Society, Daniel P. Reid, Ahad J. Ghods, Shokoufeh Savaj, Scott D. Halpern, Amelie Raz, Rachel Kohn, Michael Rey, David A. Asch, Peter Reese, Sheila M. Rothman, David J. Rothman, Leigh Turner, Gabriel M. Danovitch, Alan B. Leichtman, David Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber, Robert Fitzgerald, Daniel P. Reid, Kyle Powys Whyte, Evan Selinger, Arthur L. Caplan, Jathan Sadowski, Ian Kennedy, Robert A. Sells, Abdallah S. Daar, Ronald D. Guttmann, Raymond Hoffenberg, Michael Lock, Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Nicholas L. Tilney, Sahin Aksoy, Jennifer A. Chandler, Jacquelyn A. Burkell, Sam D. Shemie, Arthur L. Caplan, Barbara L. Neades, David Serur, Michael R. Charlton, Charles Bradley Wallis, Kannan P. Samy, Alvin Elliot Roth, Michael A. Rees, Kristina Fiore, Arthur L. Caplan, Arthur L. Caplan, Francis L. Delmonico, Rosamond Rhodes, Thomas D. Schiano, Mohammad Sanaei Ardekani, Janis M. Orlowski, Arthur L. Caplan, Jennifer deSante