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Previous Volume 345:845-846 September 13, 2001 Number 11

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Edited by Norman G. Levinsky. 288 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. $79. ISBN 0-19-263159-4.

Before the availability of renal-replacement therapies, people with end-stage renal disease faced certain death, and their care generated few ethical questions. This hopeless situation changed dramatically after the introduction of transplantation and dialysis in the 1950s and 1960s. Patients who would previously have died from renal failure could now be saved. But with technical success came a multitude of new ethical questions, several of which continue to plague us today. Ethics and the Kidney reviews many of these difficult ethical problems in nephrology and the groundbreaking attempts to resolve them. As noted in the preface, these efforts have yielded valuable . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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