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Last best gifts : altruism and the market for human blood and organs

Title
Last best gifts : altruism and the market for human blood and organs / Kieran Healy.
Author
Healy, Kieran Joseph, 1973-
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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xiii, 193 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • Procurement of organs, tissues, etc
  • Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. > Economic aspects > United States
  • Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Economic aspects > United States
  • Tissue banks > United States
  • Organ Transplantation
  • Tissue Banks
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-183) and index.
Contents
1. Exchange in human goods -- 2. Making a gift -- 3. The logistics of altruism -- 4. Collection regimes and donor populations -- 5. Organizations and obligations -- 6. Managing gifts, making markets -- App. Data and methods.
ISBN
  • 0226322351 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226322378 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005030538
  • 9780226322353
  • 9780226322377
OCLC
  • ocm62133769
  • SCSB-8878425
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries