Matching organs with donors : legality and kinship in transplants / Marie-Andrée Jacob.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacob, Marie-Andrée, 1975-

Series:

Contemporary ethnography.

Contemporary Ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Israel.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--United States.

Donation of organs, tissues, etc--Israel.

Donation of organs, tissues, etc.

Donation of organs, tissues, etc--United States.

Organ donors--Israel.

Organ donors.

Organ donors--United States.

Kidneys--Transplantation--Israel.

Kidneys.

Kidneys--Transplantation--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While the traffic in human organs stirs outrage and condemnation, donations of such material are perceived as highly ethical. In reality, the line between illicit trafficking and admirable donation is not so sharply drawn. Those entangled in the legal, social, and commercial dimensions of transplanting organs must reconcile motives, bureaucracy, and medical desperation. Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants examines the tensions between law and practice in the world of organ transplants-and the inventive routes patients may take around the law while going through legal processes. In this sensitive ethnography, Marie-Andrée Jacob reveals the methods and mindsets of doctors, administrators, gray-sector workers, patients, donors, and sellers in Israel's living kidney transplant bureaus. Matching Organs with Donors describes how suitable matches are identified between donor and recipient using terms borrowed from definitions of kinship. Jacob presents a subtle portrait of the shifting relationships between organ donors/sellers, patients, their brokers, and hospital officials who often accept questionably obtained organs. Jacob's incisive look at the cultural landscapes of transplantation in Israel has wider implications. Matching Organs with Donors deepens our understanding of the law and management of informed consent, decision-making among hospital professionals, and the shadowy borders between altruism and commerce.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Introduction: Matching

Chapter 1. Ethnography Through Transplants and Vice Versa

Chapter 2. Consent Forms, Differences, and Indifference

Chapter 3. Kinship as Template

Chapter 4. Committee-ing ''Family Donations''

Chapter 5. The Evidence of Altruism

Chapter 6. Exits and Promises: Signatures, Loopholes, and Swaps

Conclusion: Kin Relations, Legal Relations, and Transplants

Appendix A: Living Organ Transplant Directive

Appendix B: National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) (1984 Pub. L. 98-507) United States Code Title 42, Chapter 6A, Subchapter II, Part H

NOTES

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.

ISBN:

9781283898836

1283898837

9780812206500

0812206509

OCLC:

847551174