THE GENEROSITY OF THE DEAD by Graciela Nowenstein, Professor Sheila A. M. McLean ( 9780754674320 )

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Title:

THE GENEROSITY OF THE DEAD
A SOCIOLOGY OF ORGAN PROCUREMENT IN FRANCE

By:

Graciela Nowenstein, Professor Sheila A. M. McLean

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0754674320

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9780754674320

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

10 November, 2010

Series:

Medical Law and Ethics

Pages:

202

Description:

Draws on the French experience to examine the international debate surrounding organ procurement. In this book, commentators have tried to explain the dramatic differences in procurement rates in different countries in terms of legal variables, highlighting the variety of legal systems regulating consent.

Synopsis:

There has been a general assumption in the international debate surrounding organ procurement that Presumed Consent (opting-out) systems produce better results than Express Consent (opting-in) systems. This study uses the French case to challenge this widely held assumption and argues that the French presumed consent systems coexist with patterns of behaviour that in practice do not mobilize the law. It explores four key areas to current research in socio-legal studies focussing on the state and nature of social solidarity, social engineering and the changing nature of the citizen-state relations, state intervention in the event of death and discretion in use of corpses and recent modifications of the status of medical professionals as figures of authority and agents of state policy. Using material based on interviews with medical professionals, this title will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics, policy-makers and practitioners with an interest in this complex and topical subject.

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includes c. 2 b&w illustrations & c. 3 tables

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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