Last best gifts : altruism and the market for human blood and organs

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Label

Last best gifts : altruism and the market for human blood and organs

Title remainder

altruism and the market for human blood and organs

Statement of responsibility

Kieran Healy

Creator

• Healy, Kieran Joseph, 1973-

Subject

• Altruism
• Altruismus
• Bloeddonatie
• Blood Banks -- economics
• Blood Banks -- organization & administration
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Europa (geografie)
• MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services | General
• Orgaandonatie
• Organspender
• Procurement of organs, tissues, etc
• Procurement of organs, tissues, etc
• Tissue Banks -- economics
• Tissue Banks -- organization & administration
• Tissue Donors
• Tissue and Organ Procurement -- economics
• Tissue and Organ Procurement -- organization & administration
• Tissue banks
• Tissue banks -- United States
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc -- Economic aspects -- United States
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Economic aspects
• United States
• United States
• Verenigde Staten
• Procurement of organs, tissues, etc -- Economic aspects -- United States

Genre

• Electronic book
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplifies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves for no reward so that the life of an individual--often anonymous--may be spared. But as the demand for blood and organs has grown, the value of a system that depends solely on gifts has been called into question, and the possibility has surfaced that donors might be supplemented or replaced by paid suppliers. Last Best Gifts offers a fresh perspective on this ethical dilemma by examining the social organization of blood and organ donation in Europe a

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

362.17/84

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

RD129.5

LC item number

.H43 2006eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 2006 K-462
• WO 660

NLM item number

H434L 2006