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Scarce goods : justice, fairness, and organ transplantation

Koch, Tom 1949- (Author).

Summary: Annotation We call it lifeboat ethics: When there is not enough of this or that scarce good, who should die that others might urvive? Born in the 19th century, when shipwrecks were frequent and lifeboats scarce, it has become a 21st century dilemma. Who should get the last hospital bed, the scarce medical drug, the limited educational doctor, the needed transplantable human heart? Tom Koch considers both lifeboat ethics and its modern application to the distribution of transplantable human organs in the United States. He shows that the scarcity of organs is exacerbated where not created by racial and regional inequalities inherent in the American health care and transplant system. The real question, he concludes, is not "who should die" when there is not enough to go around, but the reasons why scarcity pervades at all.

Record details

ISBN: 9781282573758
ISBN: 1282573756
ISBN: 6612573759
ISBN: 9786612573750
ISBN: 0313390800
ISBN: 9780313390807
ISBN: 0313074860
ISBN: 9780313074868
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-239) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Lifeboat ethics and the case of the William Brown -- The scales of justice: principles and practice -- Scarce goods: the contexts of solid organ transplanation -- The scale of justice: theories and realities -- Disappearing states: the scale of the nation -- The scale of the city: distant communities and the problem of supply -- The lifeboat's choice -- Justice in ethic's lifeboat.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.