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Organ Donation: The Gift, the Weight and the Tyranny of Good Acts
Author(s) -
Kaplan B.,
Williams R.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2006.01731.x
Subject(s) - counterpoint , medicine , donation , organ donation , face (sociological concept) , epistemology , transplantation , law , sociology , surgery , social science , philosophy , political science , pedagogy
In this Editorial the authors offer a counterpoint to the views expressed by Scheper‐Hughes in this issue on page 507. The authors emphasize that one must be careful in taking extreme examples as a basis for judging the complex continuum of motivations, sacrifices and burdens that a donor inevitably must face.