Book Review

Here is a collection of papers covering a wide variety of issues in transplantation policy. The topics include the role of government, the economics and ethics of markets for human organs, the ethical criteria for procuring and distributing organs, the organization of both procurement and transplant...

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Published inThe New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 322; no. 14; p. 1015
Main Author Kirkman, Robert L
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Massachusetts Medical Society 05.04.1990
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Summary:Here is a collection of papers covering a wide variety of issues in transplantation policy. The topics include the role of government, the economics and ethics of markets for human organs, the ethical criteria for procuring and distributing organs, the organization of both procurement and transplantation services, and the history of public policy in the area of transplantation. Taken together, the essays are a broad and reasonably comprehensive summary of the controversies in this field. As the editors note in their introduction to this book, transplantation and its practitioners have been subjected to increasing regulation over the past decade, in . . .
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM199004053221421