At Issue Series - Organ Transplants

by Gale Cengage Learning (Editor)

Organ transplants already raise difficult questions about how scarce organs should be allocated. Artificial organ technology promises to save more lives than ever, but it also raises concerns about whether artificial organs are safe, who will have access to these expensive devices, and whether they might have a dehumanizing effect on recipients.

128 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Gale is an educational publishing company based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the United States, in the western suburbs of Detroit. It was part of the Thomson Learning division of the Thomson Corporation, a Canadian company, but became part of Cengage Learning in 2007.

The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group, is active in research and educational publishing for public and academic libraries, schools and businesses. The company may be best known for its full-text magazine and newspaper database, InfoTrac, and other online databases accessible from schools and libraries, as well as multi-volume reference works, especially in the areas of religion, history and social science.

Founded in Detroit in 1954 by Frederick Gale Ruffner, it was acquired by Thomson in 1985.