buku "State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China" adalah sebuah kumpulan essay
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The first essay, by Dr. Torsten Trey, introduces the topic of the book. His presentation shows how transplant medicine in China got to the point where it is now. His essay analyses organ sources and shows that the officially acknowledged source of organs, prisoners sentenced to death, cannot be the only explanation for organ sourcing.
The second essay, by Dr. Arthur Caplan, focuses on the ethical complications which arise from using prisoner organs for transplantation with the claim that there is free consent. The author reminds us of the responsibilities of the medical profession and lays out options doctors have.
Dr. Ghazali Ahmad, the author of the third essay, shares his experience about the shifts in transplant tourism in his country, Malaysia, in recent years and how transplant treatments in China for Malaysian patients changed after 2006. The essay is a reminder that following ethical requirements is a pre-condition for best practices in medicine.
Ethan Gutmann, the author of the fourth essay, provides a survey based estimate of Falun Gong murdered for organ transplants. The author relies on a range of detailed interviews of individual witnesses.
The author of the fifth essay, Erping Zhang, addresses the history of transplant medicine and laws in China. He attempts to explain the particular vulnerability of the Falun Gong movement to being targeted for organ harvesting.
In the sixth essay, David Matas looks at the same issue as Ethan Gutmann, the issue of numbers, using a different methodology. Though the techniques are different, the conclusions largely coincide.
The seventh essay, by David Kilgour and Jan Harvey, provides perspective on Falun Gong as well as a historical timeline of events surrounding unethical organ harvesting in China. References to 4 State Organs specific individual victims of organ harvesting add further reality to the story of victimization.
The author of the eighth essay, Dr. Jacob Lavee, recounts his personal path after a patient of his in Israel received a heart transplant on short notice in China. He developed ideas later used for a new transplant law in Israel, a law which generated a more than sixty percent increase in organ donations in one year.
In the ninth essay, Dr. Gabriel Danovitch elaborates on the responsibility of scientists to pursue ethical research. The author urges the application of ethical standards when publishing research results in medical journals.
The tenth essay, the work of Arne Schwarz, addresses the use of transplant related drugs tested in clinical trials in China and elaborates on the question of how pharmaceutical companies react to the fact that over ninety percent of transplant organs in China stem from prisoners. The author advocates that data unethically acquired in clinical trials should not be used for scientific findings.
In the eleventh and last essay, Dr. Maria A. Fiatarone Singh writes a personal essay about her involvement in promoting ethics in transplant medicine. Despite her not being professionally part of the transplant field, the author felt compelled to take an active role in calling for an end to unethical organ harvesting in China.
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