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Scarce Goods: Justice, Fairness, and Organ Transplantation
enlarge	Author: Tom Koch Publisher: Praeger Category: Book Buy New: $110.95 as of 11/21/2009 07:07 PST details New (12) Used (8) from $89.95 Seller: Amazon.com Media: Hardcover Pages: 272 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3 Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 ISBN: 0275974324 Dewey Decimal Number: 174.25 EAN: 9780275974329 ASIN: 0275974324 Publication Date: November 30, 2001 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description We call it lifeboat ethics: When there is not enough of this or that scarce good, who should die that others might urvive? Born in the 19th century, when shipwrecks were frequent and lifeboats scarce, it has become a 21st century dilemma. Who should get the last hospital bed, the scarce medical drug, the limited educational doctor, the needed transplantable human heart? Tom Koch considers both lifeboat ethics and its modern application to the distribution of transplantable human organs in the United States. He shows that the scarcity of organs is exacerbated where not created by racial and regional inequalities inherent in the American health care and transplant system. The real question, he concludes, is not "who should die" when there is not enough to go around, but the reasons why scarcity pervades at all.

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