1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463578903321

Autore

Jacob Marie-Andrée <1975->

Titolo

Matching organs with donors [[electronic resource] ] : legality and kinship in transplants / / Marie-Andrée Jacob

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-89883-7

0-8122-0650-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Ethnography

Disciplina

617.9/54

Soggetti

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Israel

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - United States

Donation of organs, tissues, etc - Israel

Donation of organs, tissues, etc - United States

Organ donors - Israel

Organ donors - United States

Kidneys - Transplantation - Israel

Kidneys - Transplantation - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

While the traffic in human organs stirs outrage and condemnation, donations of such material are perceived as highly ethical. In reality, the line between illicit trafficking and admirable donation is not so sharply



drawn. Those entangled in the legal, social, and commercial dimensions of transplanting organs must reconcile motives, bureaucracy, and medical desperation. Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants examines the tensions between law and practice in the world of organ transplants-and the inventive routes patients may take around the law while going through legal processes. In this sensitive ethnography, Marie-Andrée Jacob reveals the methods and mindsets of doctors, administrators, gray-sector workers, patients, donors, and sellers in Israel's living kidney transplant bureaus. Matching Organs with Donors describes how suitable matches are identified between donor and recipient using terms borrowed from definitions of kinship. Jacob presents a subtle portrait of the shifting relationships between organ donors/sellers, patients, their brokers, and hospital officials who often accept questionably obtained organs. Jacob's incisive look at the cultural landscapes of transplantation in Israel has wider implications. Matching Organs with Donors deepens our understanding of the law and management of informed consent, decision-making among hospital professionals, and the shadowy borders between altruism and commerce.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696543003321

Autore

Eberts Sandra M

Titolo

Assessing the vulnerability of public-supply wells to contamination from urban, agricultural, and natural sources [[electronic resource] /] / by Sandra M. Eberts, Martha L. Erwin, and Pixie A. Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Reston, Va.] : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , [2005]

Descrizione fisica

4 unnumbered pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Fact sheet ; ; 2005-3022

Altri autori (Persone)

ErwinMartha L

HamiltonPixie A

Soggetti

Water quality management - United States

Municipal water supply - United States - Management

Water - Pollution potential - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (viewed on May 10, 2005).

"April 2005."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.