While the traffic in human organs stirs outrage and condemnation, donations of such material are perceived as highly ethical. In reality, the line between illicit trafficking and admirable donation is not so sharply drawn. Those entangled in the legal, social, and commercial dimensions of transplanting organs must reconcile motives, bureaucracy, and medical desperation. Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants examines the tensions between law and practice in the world of organ transplants—and the inventive routes patients may take around the law while going through legal processes.
In this sensitive ethnography, Marie-Andrée Jacob reveals the methods and mindsets of doctors, administrators, gray-sector workers, patients, donors, and sellers in Israel’s living kidney transplant bureaus. Matching Organs with Donors describes how suitable matches are identified between donor and recipient using terms borrowed from definitions of kinship. Jacob presents a subtle portrait of the shifting relationships between organ donors/sellers, patients, their brokers, and hospital officials who often accept questionably obtained organs.
Jacob’s incisive look at the cultural landscapes of transplantation in Israel has wider implications. Matching Organs with Donors deepens our understanding of the law and management of informed consent, decision-making among hospital professionals, and the shadowy borders between altruism and commerce.
Table des matières
Introduction: Matching
Chapter 1. Ethnography Through Transplants and Vice Versa
Chapter 2. Consent Forms, Differences, and Indifference
Chapter 3. Kinship as Template
Chapter 4. Committee-ing ‘Family Donations’
Chapter 5. The Evidence of Altruism
Chapter 6. Exits and Promises: Signatures, Loopholes, and Swaps
Conclusion: Kin Relations, Legal Relations, and Transplants
Appendices
A: Living Organ Transplant Directive
B: National Organ Transplant Act
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
A propos de l’auteur
Marie-Andree Jacob is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Keele University.
Plus d’ebooks du même auteur(s) / Éditeur
146 755 Ebooks dans cette catégorie
