The Generosity of the Dead
Subtitle: a sociology of organ procurement in France
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT, USA; Surrey, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780754674320
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Law as policy; title: chapter 1: Organ transplantation: From "an Eternally Hopeless Dream" to the management of scarce resources; title: chapter 2: Law as a tool for enhancing social change: from faith to disenchantment; title: Part 2: Organ retrieval in hospitals: walking on thin ice; title: chapter 3: From heterogeneity to normalization; title: chapter 4: The "living cadaver"; title: chapter 5: Unpredictable situations; title: chapter 6: Whose gifts?; title: Part 3: Law and Policy; title: chapter 7: The regulation of generosity by the State; title: chapter 8: The law of policy