The generosity of the dead
Subtitle: a sociology of organ procurement in France by Graciela Nowenstein
Series: Medical law and ethics
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780754674320; 9780754691181
Subjects: Donation of organs, tissues; Law and legislation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Organ transplantation : from "an eternally hopeless dream" to the management of scarce resources; title: Law as tool for enhancing social change : from faith to disenchantment; title: From heterogeneity to normalisation; title: The "living cadaver"; title: Unpredictable situations; title: Whose gift?; title: Regulation of generosity by the state; title: The law as policy.