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Matching organs with donors : Legality and kinship in organ transplants

Jacob Marie-Andree

Matching organs with donors : Legality and kinship in organ transplants - Philadelphia UniveRsity Of Pennsylvania Press 2012 - 221p

Table of 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


Appendices

A: Living Organ Transplant Directive

B: National Organ Transplant Act


Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

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344.041900 / JAC