The Global Organ Shortage: Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses - Rilegato

Beard, T. Randolph; Kaserman, David L.; Osterkamp, Rigmar

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ISBN 10: 0804784094 ISBN 13: 9780804784092

Casa editrice: Stanford Economics & Finance, 2013

Riassunto

Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized because of failures in the organ acquisition process. In the United States, for instance, more than 10,000 people die every year either awaiting transplantation, or as a result of deteriorating health exacerbated by the shortage of organs. Issues pertaining to organ donation and transplantation represent, perhaps, the most complex and morally controversial medical dilemmas aside from abortion and euthanasia. However, these quandaries are not unsolvable. This book proposes compensating organ donors within a publicly controlled monopsony. This proposal is quite similar to current practice in Spain, where compensation for cadaveric donation now occurs "in secret," as this text reveals.To build their recommendations, the authors provide a medical history of transplantation, a history of the development of national laws and waiting lists, a careful examination of the social costs and benefits of transplantation, a discussion of the causes of organ shortages, an evaluation of "partial" reforms tried or proposed, an extensive ethical evaluation of the current system and its competitors.

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L'autore:

T. Randolph "Randy" Beard is Professor of Economics at Auburn University.Rigmar Osterkamp is Fellow at the School for Political Studies at University of Munich.The late David L. Kaserman was Torchmark Professor of Economics at Auburn University.

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Book by Beard T Kaserman David Osterkamp Rigmar

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• Editore: Stanford Economics & Finance
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0804784094
• ISBN 13: 9780804784092
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 242