TY - BOOK ID - 5427102 TI - Last best gifts PY - 2006 SN - 0226322378 0226322351 9780226322353 9780226322377 9786612738432 0226322386 1282738437 9780226322384 9781282738430 661273843X PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. KW - Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. KW - Tissue banks KW - Dons d'organes, de tissus, etc. KW - Dons d'organes, de tissus, etc KW - Greffe (Chirurgie) KW - Banques de tissus KW - Economic aspects KW - Gestion KW - Aspect économique KW - Altruism -- United States. KW - Blood Banks -- economics -- United States. KW - Blood Banks -- organization & administration -- United States. KW - Procurement of organs, tissues, etc - Economic aspects - United States. KW - Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. -- Economic aspects -- United States. KW - Tissue and Organ Procurement -- economics -- United States. KW - Tissue Banks -- economics -- United States. KW - Tissue Banks -- organization & administration -- United States. KW - Tissue banks - United States. KW - Tissue banks -- United States. KW - Tissue Donors -- United States. KW - Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Economic aspects - United States. KW - Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Economic aspects -- United States. KW - Procurement of organs, tissues, etc KW - Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc KW - Health Services KW - Social Behavior KW - Biological Specimen Banks KW - Persons KW - Altruism KW - Tissue Banks KW - Tissue Donors KW - Tissue and Organ Procurement KW - Blood Banks KW - Health Facilities KW - Behavior KW - Named Groups KW - Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services KW - Health Care KW - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Surgery & Anesthesiology KW - Transplantation of Organs & Tissues KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - #SBIB:316.334.3M30 KW - #SBIB:316.334.3M50 KW - Medische sociologie: gezondheidsgedrag KW - Organisatie van de gezondheidszorg: algemeen, beleid KW - Aspect économique KW - Banks, Organ KW - Banks, Tissue KW - Banks, Transplant KW - Organ banks KW - Transplant banks KW - Medical transplantation KW - Organ transplantation KW - Organ transplants KW - Organs (Anatomy) KW - Surgical transplantation KW - Tissue transplantation KW - Tissues KW - Transplants, Organ KW - Organ procurement (Surgery) KW - Tissue procurement (Surgery) KW - Transplantation KW - Biobanks KW - Health facilities KW - Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. KW - Surgery KW - Transplant surgery KW - Transplantation surgery KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Professional ethics. Deontology KW - Human medicine KW - altruism, black market, organ donation, capitalism, commodification, human body, blood donors, gifts, benevolence, incentives, sale, sacrifice, ethics, europe, donations, procurement, organizations, red cross, fairness, justice, sociology, politics, nonfiction, economics, medicine, healthcare, transfusion, transplant, collection, exchange, tissues. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5427102 AB - More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplifies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves for no reward so that the life of an individual-often anonymous-may be spared. But as the demand for blood and organs has grown, the value of a system that depends solely on gifts has been called into question, and the possibility has surfaced that donors might be supplemented or replaced by paid suppliers. Last Best Gifts offers a fresh perspective on this ethical dilemma by examining the social organization of blood and organ donation in Europe and the United States. Gifts of blood and organs are not given everywhere in the same way or to the same extent-contrasts that allow Kieran Healy to uncover the pivotal role that institutions play in fashioning the contexts for donations. Procurement organizations, he shows, sustain altruism by providing opportunities to give and by producing public accounts of what giving means. In the end, Healy suggests, successful systems rest on the fairness of the exchange, rather than the purity of a donor's altruism or the size of a financial incentive. ER -