The organ shortage crisis in America : incentives, civic duty, and closing the gap

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Label

The organ shortage crisis in America : incentives, civic duty, and closing the gap

Title remainder

incentives, civic duty, and closing the gap

Statement of responsibility

Andrew Michael Flescher

Creator

• Flescher, Andrew Michael, 1969-

Author

• Flescher, Andrew Michael, 1969-

Subject

• Donation of organs, tissues, etc -- United States
• Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Electronic books
• MEDICAL -- Ethics
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
• Tissue and Organ Procurement
• United States
• United States
• Donation of organs, tissues, etc
• Donation of organs, tissues, etc -- Moral and ethical aspects

Language

eng

Summary

Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States. Every ten minutes a new name is added to this list, while each day eight people die waiting for an organ to become available. Worse, the gap between those in need of an organ and the number of available donors is growing: our traditional reliance on cadaveric organ donation is insufficient, and in recent years there has been a decline in the number of living donors as well as in the percentage of living donors relative to overall kidney donors. Some transplant surgeons and policy advocates suggest a market solution and legalizing the sale of organs, Andrew Michael Flescher objects to this approach, citing concerns about social justice, commodification, and patient safety. Given that, what is the most efficacious means of attracting prospective living kidney donors? Flescher, drawing on scores of interviews with donors and patients, suggests that inculcating a sense of altruism and civic duty is a more effective means of increasing donor participation than purely financial incentives. He encourages individuals to spend time with patients on dialysis, advocating donor "chains" in order to facilitate relationships between donors and recipients, and creating sacred spaces in hospitals such as a "wall of heroes" to recognize those who sacrifice their body parts for others

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

362.17/830973

Index

index present

LC call number

RD129.5

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WO 660