Medical governance
Subtitle: values, expertise, and interests in organ transplantation
By: David L. Weimer.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781589016316
Subjects: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (United States); Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (United States); Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. -- United States; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- United States; Organ Transplantation -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States; Government Regulation -- United States; Tissue and Organ Procurement -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medical governance : important but neglected; title: Balancing values, expertise, and interests; title: The organ procurement and transplantation network; title: Expanding organ supply; title: Liver allocation and the final rule; title: Incremental response to racial disparity in kidney allocation; title: Kidney allocation review : can the OPTN make non-incremental change?; title: How and how well does the OPTN govern?; title: Is the OPTN a viable and desirable model in other medical contexts?