1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910712093803321

Titolo

Caribou use of narrow land corridors around Teshekpuk Lake, Alaska / / Dave Yokel [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Anchorage, Alaska] : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, [Alaska State Office], , 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 17 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps

Collana

BLM-Alaska open file report ; ; 125

Soggetti

Caribou - Monitoring - Alaska - Teshekpuk Lake Region

Caribou - Radio tracking - Alaska - Teshekpuk Lake Region

Caribou - Migration - Alaska - Teshekpuk Lake Region

Biotelemetry

Caribou - Migration

Caribou - Monitoring

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July 2011."

"BLM/AK/ST-11/004+6610+F0000"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 15-17).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814013903321

Autore

Weimer David L

Titolo

Medical governance : values, expertise, and interests in organ transplantation / / David L. Weimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-58901-682-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

American governance and public policy series

Disciplina

617.9/54

Soggetti

Procurement of organs, tissues, etc - United States

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?

Sommario/riassunto

Governments throughout the industrialized world make decisions that fundamentally affect the quality and accessibility of medical care. In the United States, despite the absence of universal health insurance, these decisions have great influence on the practice of medicine. In Medical Governance, David Weimer explores an alternative regulatory approach to medical care based on the delegation of decisions about the allocation of scarce medical resources to private nonprofit organizations. He investigates the specific development of rules for the U.S. organ transplant system and details the conv