Medical governance : values, expertise, and interests in organ transplantation

Author(s)

• Weimer, David Leo

Bibliographic Information

Medical governance : values, expertise, and interests in organ transplantation

David L. Weimer

（American governance and public policy）

Georgetown University Press, c2010

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Medical governance : important but neglected
• Balancing values, expertise, and interests
• The organ procurement and transplantation network
• Expanding organ supply
• Liver allocation and the final rule
• Incremental response to racial disparity in kidney allocation
• The kidney allocation review : can the OPTN make nonincremental change?
• How and how well does the OPTN govern?
• Is the OPTN a viable and desirable model in other medical contexts?

Details

• NCID: BB03583835
• ISBN:
  • 9781589016316
• LCCN: 2009024524
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, DC
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 214 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RD129.5
  • NLM : 2010 D-773
  • DC22 : 617.9/54
  • NDC8 : 490.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (United States)
  • LCSH : Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. -- United States
  • LCSH : Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- United States
  • MESH : Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (United States)
  • MESH : Organ Transplantation -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
  • MESH : Government Regulation -- United States
  • MESH : Tissue and Organ Procurement -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA30230309