Scarce goods : justice, fairness, and organ transplantation / / Tom Koch
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| Autore: |
Koch Tom <1949->
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| Titolo: |
Scarce goods : justice, fairness, and organ transplantation / / Tom Koch
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| Pubblicazione: | Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 174/.25 |
| Soggetto topico: | Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Moral and ethical aspects - United States |
| Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Social aspects - United States | |
| Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Law and legislation - United States | |
| Social justice - United States | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-239) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Machine generated contents note: 1 Lifeboat Ethics and the Case of the William Brown -- Health Care -- The William Brown -- The Gulf Stream -- A Constructed Tale -- The Trial -- Lifeboat Ethics Redux -- The Titantic --2 The Scales of Justice: Principles and Practice -- Distributive Justice -- Scarcity -- Justice Rationales -- Critiques -- Transplantation -- A Geographical Approach -- 3 Scarce Goods: The Contexts of Solid Organ Transplantation -- Transplantation: The Early Years -- Cyclosporine: Transforming Scarcity -- A National System -- National Organ Transplant Act -- Regionalization -- An Example -- Discussion --4 The Scale of Justice: Theories and Realities -- Perspective and Scale -- Global/Interational Scales -- Hemispheric Perspective -- Justice and Scale --5 Disappearing States: The Scale of the Nation -- Regional Inequalities -- Centers of Excellence -- Distant Cities -- Redistricting -- Travel Time (Distance) -- Discussion --6 The Scale of the City: Distant Communities and the -- Problem of Supply -- Rural versus Urban Care -- OPO Performance -- Demographics and Membership -- Poverty and Race -- A Sense of the Game -- Application: Southern California -- Discussion --7 The Lifeboat's Choice -- Lifeboat Seats -- Results -- Q-Analysis -- Discussion --8 Justice in Ethic's Lifeboat -- Dimensionality -- Participation -- Philosophical Concerns -- Reasons and Persons -- The Scarcities We Create --Afterword -- Holmes' Legacy -- Abundance and Scarcity. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Scarce goods |
| ISBN: | 0-313-39080-0 |
| 9786612573750 | |
| 1-282-57375-6 | |
| 0-313-07486-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782939903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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