Bioethics Beyond Altruism Donating and Transforming Human Biological Materials

9 Gift-of-life? The Psychosocial Experiences ... 221 for a heart will die if a donated organ does not become available in a time ...

222 G. O’Brien or, as Jeffrey reported, that the heart had been ‘wasted on someone who’s had a life’ (O’Brien et al. 2014 ). Bot ...

9 Gift-of-life? The Psychosocial Experiences ... 223 Gift rhetoric has the capacity to condition, and even prescribe, the experi ...

224 G. O’Brien transplantation experience were relatively straightforward for them. Based on the findings of my research, the ex ...

9 Gift-of-life? The Psychosocial Experiences ... 225 general principles in the allocation of scarce resources, in which people j ...

226 G. O’Brien taken up by all liver recipients and gratitude was not a strong feature of their narratives. Few spoke of gratitu ...

9 Gift-of-life? The Psychosocial Experiences ... 227 to heart recipients, many liver recipients in the study were forthright in ...

228 G. O’Brien to plan all other activities to accommodate it. Life for these participants was experienced as being dominated by ...

9 Gift-of-life? The Psychosocial Experiences ... 229 would evoke much gratitude, and for some this was the case: they spoke of d ...

230 G. O’Brien involves the receipt of a benefit that might not have come one’s way. In a study of kidney recipients’ quality of ...

9 Gift-of-life? The Psychosocial Experiences ... 231 constructs donated organs (rather than medical treatments) as ‘gifts’. A fo ...

232 G. O’Brien (appropriate) levels of gratitude. What I, instead, encountered were many different stories, all replete with the ...

9 Gift-of-life? The Psychosocial Experiences ... 233 recipients might site and make meaning of their transplant experience (see ...

234 G. O’Brien Cheek, J. (2008). Healthism: A new conservatism? Qualitative Health Research, 18, 974–982. Clarkson, K. A., & ...

9 Gift-of-life? The Psychosocial Experiences ... 235 Kierans, C. (2011). Anthropology, organ transplantation and the immune sys- ...

236 G. O’Brien Shaw, R. (2012). Thanking and reciprocating under the New Zealand organ donation system. Health, 16 (3), 298–313. ...

9 Gift-of-life? The Psychosocial Experiences ... 237 Walker, M. U. (2009). Introduction: Groningen naturalism in bioethics. In H ...

Introduction Death was once an event managed at home with little medical interven- tion (Howarth 2007 ). By the last few decades ...

240 M. Coombs and M. Woods care is unable to bring about recovery. Death and dying is therefore an integral part of intensive ca ...

10 Organ Donation Practices and End-of-life Care ... 241 setting result from brain death (Senouci 2004 ). This occurs following ...