1 option
Scarce goods : justice, fairness, and organ transplantation / Tom Koch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koch, Tom, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Social aspects--United States.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Law and legislation--United States.
- Social justice--United States.
- Social justice.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Law and legislation.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Social aspects.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 Lifeboat Ethics and the Case of the William Brown 1
- Health Care 5
- The William Brown 8
- The Gulf Stream 10
- A Constructed Tale 15
- The Trial 17
- Lifeboat Ethics Redux 18
- The Titantic 19
- 2 The Scales of Justice: Principles and Practice 23
- Distributive Justice 25
- Scarcity 28
- Justice Rationales 32
- Critiques 41
- Transplantation 44
- A Geographical Approach 45
- 3 Scarce Goods: The Contexts of Solid Organ Transplantation 49
- Transplantation: The Early Years 50
- Cyclosporine: Transforming Scarcity 52
- A National System 54
- National Organ Transplant Act 57
- Regionalization 61
- An Example 64
- 4 The Scale of Justice: Theories and Realities 73
- Perspective and Scale 75
- Global/International Scales 78
- Hemispheric Perspective 85
- Justice and Scale 92
- 5 Disappearing States: The Scale of the Nation 95
- Regional Inequalities 99
- Centers of Excellence 107
- Distant Cities 109
- Redistricting 113
- Travel Time (Distance) 115
- 6 The Scale of the City: Distant Communities and the Problem of Supply 125
- Rural versus Urban Care 126
- OPO Performance 128
- Demographics and Membership 131
- Poverty and Race 140
- A Sense of the Game 145
- Application: Southern California 146
- 7 The Lifeboat's Choice 151
- Lifeboat Seats 153
- Results 157
- Q-Analysis 166
- 8 Justice in Ethic's Lifeboat 175
- Dimensionality 177
- Participation 180
- Philosophical Concerns 183
- Reasons and Persons 189
- The Scarcities We Create 191
- Holmes' Legacy 195
- Abundance and Scarcity 196.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275974324
- 0275974332
- OCLC:
- 47716348
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.