Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants

by Marie-Andree Jacob

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224432X
• ISBN13: 9780812244328
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"