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The courage to fail : a social view of organ transplants and dialysis / Renée C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey ; with a new introduction by authors.
Van Pelt Library RA418.5.M4 F68 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Renée C. (Renée Claire), 1928-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical innovations--Social aspects.
- Medical innovations.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Social aspects.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Hemodialysis--Social aspects.
- Hemodialysis.
- Ethics, Clinical.
- Organ Transplantation--psychology.
- Heart, Artificial.
- Renal Dialysis.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Subjects:
- Ethics, Clinical.
- Organ Transplantation--psychology.
- Heart, Artificial.
- Renal Dialysis.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [New edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2002]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Patterns in Therapeutic Innovation: Transplantation
- 1. Gift Exchange and Gatekeeping 5
- 2. Specialists in Uncertainty: The Problem of Rejection 40
- 3. The Experiment-Therapy Dilemma 60
- Part 2 The Courage to Fail Ethos
- 4. The Physician-Investigator and His Patients 87
- 5. The Heart Transplant Moratorium 108
- 6. The Case of the Artificial Heart 135
- Part 3 Patterns in Therapeutic Innovation: Dialysis
- 7. "To Give Life": A Study of Seattle's Hemodialysis Program 201
- 8. Patient Selection and the Right to Die: Problems Facing Seattle's Kidney Center 226
- 9. Ernie Crowfeather 266
- Part 4 Changing Perspectives on Transplantation and Dialysis
- 10. Transplantation in the 1970s: A Revised Paradigm of Therapeutic Innovation 305
- 11. The Democratization of Dialysis: Public Law 92-603 345
- 12. The Societal Meaning of The Courage to Fail 376
- Appendix A Sociological Portrait of the Transplant Surgeon 397.
- Notes:
- Revised ed. published by University of Chicago Press, 1978.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [411]-437) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0765807416
- OCLC:
- 48177309
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