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Review of Organ Shortage: Ethics, Law, and Pragmatism
Author(s) -
Woodward Maggie
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
world medical and health policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.326
H-Index - 11
ISSN - 1948-4682
DOI - 10.2202/1948-4682.1203
Subject(s) - economic shortage , pragmatism , organ donation , solid organ , law , organ transplantation , political science , sociology , medicine , transplantation , epistemology , philosophy , surgery , linguistics , government (linguistics)
Organ Shortage: Ethics, Law, and Pragmatism gives a solid introduction to the broad issue of organ shortage worldwide. The authors examine barriers to increasing the supply of organs for transplant and explore policies to encourage donation, providing a comparison of regulations across numerous nations.