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This sensitive ethnography reveals the methods and mindsets of doctors, patients, donors, and sellers in Israel's living kidney transplant bureaus. Matching Organs with Donors describes how these actors identify and adjudicate suitable matches between donor and recipient using terms borrowed fr...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2012] ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Contemporary ethnography
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This sensitive ethnography reveals the methods and mindsets of doctors, patients, donors, and sellers in Israel's living kidney transplant bureaus. Matching Organs with Donors describes how these actors identify and adjudicate suitable matches between donor and recipient using terms borrowed from definitions of kinship. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780812206500 |
| Index Number: | RD120 |
| CLC: | R617 |
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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. |