Medical governance:values, expertise, and interests in organ transplantation

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Weimer David Leo
Published: Georgetown University Press,
Publisher Address: Washington, DC
Publication Dates: c2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: American governance and public policy series
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Carrier Form: xvi, 214 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9781589016316 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1589016319 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: R617
CLC: R617
Call Number: R617/W422
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Medical governance : important but neglected -- Balancing values, expertise, and interests -- The organ procurement and transplantation network -- Expanding organ supply -- Liver allocation and the final rule -- Incremental response to racial disparity in kidney allocation -- The kidney allocation review : can the OPTN make nonincremental change? -- How and how well does the OPTN govern? -- Is the OPTN a viable and desirable model in other medical contexts?