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Medical governance : values, expertise, and interests in organ transplantation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weimer, David Leo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2010]
Series:American governance and public policy.
Subjects:
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (United States)
Tissue and Organ Procurement > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Government Regulation > United States.
Organ Transplantation > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > United States.
Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Medical governance : important but neglected
  • Balancing values, expertise, and interests
  • The organ procurement and transplantation network
  • Expanding organ supply
  • Liver allocation and the final rule
  • Incremental response to racial disparity in kidney allocation
  • The kidney allocation review : can the OPTN make nonincremental change?
  • How and how well does the OPTN govern?
  • Is the OPTN a viable and desirable model in other medical contexts?