03762nam 22006974a 450 991045934770332120200520144314.01-282-73843-797866127384320-226-32238-610.7208/9780226322384(CKB)2670000000034583(EBL)574755(OCoLC)655853825(SSID)ssj0000421767(PQKBManifestationID)11282571(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421767(PQKBWorkID)10412721(PQKB)11114794(StDuBDS)EDZ0000119084(MiAaPQ)EBC574755(DE-B1597)524298(OCoLC)1135567190(DE-B1597)9780226322384(Au-PeEL)EBL574755(CaPaEBR)ebr10408915(CaONFJC)MIL273843(EXLCZ)99267000000003458320051019d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLast best gifts[electronic resource] altruism and the market for human blood and organs /Kieran HealyChicago University of Chicago Press20061 online resource (208 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-32237-8 0-226-32235-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-183) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Exchange in Human Goods -- 2. Making a Gift -- 3. The Logistics of Altruism -- 4. Collection Regimes and Donor Populations -- 5. Organizations and Obligations -- 6. Managing Gifts, Making Markets -- Appendix: Data Sources and Methods -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexMore than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplifies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves for no reward so that the life of an individual-often anonymous-may be spared. But as the demand for blood and organs has grown, the value of a system that depends solely on gifts has been called into question, and the possibility has surfaced that donors might be supplemented or replaced by paid suppliers. Last Best Gifts offers a fresh perspective on this ethical dilemma by examining the social organization of blood and organ donation in Europe and the United States. Gifts of blood and organs are not given everywhere in the same way or to the same extent-contrasts that allow Kieran Healy to uncover the pivotal role that institutions play in fashioning the contexts for donations. Procurement organizations, he shows, sustain altruism by providing opportunities to give and by producing public accounts of what giving means. In the end, Healy suggests, successful systems rest on the fairness of the exchange, rather than the purity of a donor's altruism or the size of a financial incentive. Procurement of organs, tissues, etcProcurement of organs, tissues, etcEconomic aspectsUnited StatesTransplantation of organs, tissues, etcEconomic aspectsUnited StatesTissue banksUnited StatesElectronic books.Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.Economic aspectsTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.Economic aspectsTissue banks362.17/84Healy Kieran Joseph1973-938908MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459347703321Last best gifts2116471UNINA