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The Courage to Fail - A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis (Broché)

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  • Transaction Publishers

  • Paru le : 01/04/2001
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The title of this profound work conveys the bold, uncertain, and often dangerous adventure in which medical professionals and their organ transplant and dialysis patients are engaged. Built around a series of case studies developed through years of first-hand ethnographic research. The Courage to Fail is the product of collaborative first-hand research concerned with various social phenomena generated by transplantation and dialysis and also by the development and deployment of an artificial heart.
The authors examine the individuals involved and the workings and atmosphere of some of the medical centers in which these forms of therapy have been developed. They examine "gift-exchange" dimensions of transplantation : the transcendent and tyrannical aspects of the "gift of life" that transplants entail for donors and recipients—and for medical professionals as well. They also analyze the dilemma of uncertainty Inherent in medicine, which occurs with particular force in the development of such experimental techniques.
Since publication of the original edition, the authors have continued to follow social and medical developments surrounding organ transplants and dialysis. In their new introduction, they discuss transplantation as a gift of life, how death is defined and when it occurs, efforts to procure more organs, and organ allocation and issues of equity. This book will be of interest to physicians, medical students, medical sociologists, and anyone interested in the history of and issues surrounding organ replacement.

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  • Date de parution : 01/04/2001
  • Editeur : Transaction Publishers
  • ISBN : 0-7658-0741-6
  • EAN : 9780765807410
  • Format : Grand Format
  • Présentation : Broché
  • Nb. de pages : 451 pages
  • Poids : 0.78 Kg
  • Dimensions : 15,0 cm × 23,1 cm × 3,3 cm

À propos des auteurs

Renee Fox is Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences in the department of sociology and a fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a research associate at Queen Elizabeth House, the International Development Centre at the University of Oxford. Judith P. Swazey is president of the Acadia Institute in Bar Harbor, Maine, an independent, nonprofit center for the study of issues concerning medicine, science, and society that she founded in 1984.
Her work has focused on social, ethical and policy aspects of biomedicine and health care, professional ethics, and graduate and professional education.
Renée Claire Fox et Judith Swazey - The Courage to Fail - A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis.
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