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Organ Transplantation Policy

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Pages: 278

Published: September 1989

Editors: James F. Blumstein, Frank A. Sloan

Contributors: James F. Blumstein, Jeffrey M. Prottas, Henry Hansmann, James F. Childress, Peter H. Schuck, Richard A. Rettig, Clark C. Havighurst, Frank A. Sloan, May W. Shayne, Marilyn D. Doyle, Nancy M. P. King

Organ transplantation as a high-cost surgical and medical procedure poses an extraordinarily rich and complex set of social, ethical, and policy issues.
A June 1988 symposium at Vanderbilt University gathered leaders in a wide variety of fields to synthesize the current state of knowledge concerning organ transplantation policy and to access policy options. Collected here are the revised papers presented at that symposium; also included is one influential earlier paper on the same topic. Together, they constitute a major contribution to the debate on organ transplantation policy and its moral, legal, financial, and political implications.

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Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / James F. Blumstein and Frank A. Sloan 1

Government's Role in Organ Transplantation Policy / James F. Blumstein 5

The Organization of Organ Procurement / Jeffrey M. Prottas 41

The Economics and Ethics of Markets for Human Organs / Henry Hansmann 57

Ethical Criteria for Procuring and Distributing Organs for Transplantation / James F. Childress 87

Is There a Rationale for Regionalizing Organ Transplantation Services? / Frank A. Sloan, May W. Shayne, and Marilyn D. Doyle 115

Government Funding for Organ Transplants / Peter H. Schuck 169

The Politics of Organ Transplantation: A Parable of Our Time / Richard A. Rettig 191

Liver Transplantation in Massachusetts: Public Policymaking as Morality Play / Clark C. Havighurst and Nancy M. P. King 229

Index 261

Contributors 267

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Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8223-0939-0 / eISBN: 978-0-8223-9915-5 /