LEADER 03726nam 22006974a 450 001 9910824845703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-73843-7 010 $a9786612738432 010 $a0-226-32238-6 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226322384 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034583 035 $a(EBL)574755 035 $a(OCoLC)655853825 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421767 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282571 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421767 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10412721 035 $a(PQKB)11114794 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000119084 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC574755 035 $a(DE-B1597)524298 035 $a(OCoLC)1135567190 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226322384 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL574755 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10408915 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL273843 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034583 100 $a20051019d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLast best gifts $ealtruism and the market for human blood and organs /$fKieran Healy 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-32237-8 311 $a0-226-32235-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-183) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Exchange in Human Goods -- $t2. Making a Gift -- $t3. The Logistics of Altruism -- $t4. Collection Regimes and Donor Populations -- $t5. Organizations and Obligations -- $t6. Managing Gifts, Making Markets -- $tAppendix: Data Sources and Methods -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aMore 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. 606 $aProcurement of organs, tissues, etc 606 $aProcurement of organs, tissues, etc$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 606 $aTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 606 $aTissue banks$zUnited States 615 0$aProcurement of organs, tissues, etc. 615 0$aProcurement of organs, tissues, etc.$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aTissue banks 676 $a362.17/84 700 $aHealy$b Kieran Joseph$f1973-$01600740 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824845703321 996 $aLast best gifts$93923993 997 $aUNINA