The global organ shortage [electronic resource] : economic causes, human consequences, policy responses / T. Randolph Beard, David Kaserman, and Rigmar Osterkamp ; with a foreword by Friedrich Breyer.

9780804784641 (electronic book)
9780804784092

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Economics and Finance, 2013.

English

1 online resource (xvi, 242 p.) : ill.

RD129.5 .B43 2012eb

362.17/83

Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized because of failures in the organ acquisition process. In the United States, for instance, more than 10,000 people die every year either awaiting transplantation, or as a result of deteriorating health exacerbated by the shortage of organs. Issues pertaining to organ donation and transplantation represent, perhaps, the most complex and morally controversial medical dilemmas aside from abortion and euthanasia.

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