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The ethics of medical choice / edited by Jon Elster and Nicolas Herpin.

Title
The ethics of medical choice / edited by Jon Elster and Nicolas Herpin.
Publication
London ; New York : Pinter ; New York : Distributed in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Elster, Jon, 1940-
  • Herpin, Nicolas.
Description
145 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Social change in Western Europe
Uniform Title
Social change in Western Europe.
Subject
  • Ethics, Medical
  • France
  • Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous
  • Medical ethics > Europe, Western
  • Medical ethics
  • Norway
  • Organ Transplantation
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
1. The ethics of medical choices / Jon Elster -- 2. Centralisation and discretionary power: kidney transplantation in France / Nicolas Herpin and Florence Paterson -- 3. Obstacles to sperm donation in France / Nicolas Herpin -- 4. Surgeons under surveillance: dialysis and transplantation in the USA / J. Michael Dennis -- 5. The colour of genes in the USA / J. Michael Dennis -- 6. Donations from the living: are the French and Norwegians altruistic? / Hilde Lorentzen and Florence Paterson -- 7. Three countries, three systems / J. Michael Dennis.
ISBN
  • 1855672499
  • 1855672111 (pbk.)
LCCN
94029565
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries