Matching Organs with Donors : : Legality and Kinship in Transplants / / Marie-Andree Jacob, Marie-Andrée Jacob.
While the traffic in human organs stirs outrage and condemnation, donations of such material are perceived as highly ethical. In reality, the line between illicit trafficking and admirable donation is not so sharply drawn. Those entangled in the legal, social, and commercial dimensions of transplant...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contemporary Ethnography
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Matching
- Chapter 1. Ethnography Through Transplants and Vice Versa
- Chapter 2. Consent Forms, Differences, and Indifference
- Chapter 3. Kinship as Template
- Chapter 4. Committee-ing ''Family Donations''
- Chapter 5. The Evidence of Altruism
- Chapter 6. Exits and Promises: Signatures, Loopholes, and Swaps
- Conclusion: Kin Relations, Legal Relations, and Transplants
- Appendix A: Living Organ Transplant Directive
- Appendix B: National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) (1984 Pub. L. 98-507) United States Code Title 42, Chapter 6A, Subchapter II, Part H
- NOTES
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments