02967cam a2200373 i 4500 593971 593971 19669221 US-DLC 20190516125027.0 170526s2018 dcu b 001 0 eng 2017025225 9781626165434 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781626165441 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781626165458 (ebook) (DGU)ocm00000NEW DGU/DLC eng DGU rda DLC AU pcc n-us--- Alfaisal Main Library RD129.5 .F58 2018 Flescher, Andrew Michael, 1969- author. The organ shortage crisis in America : incentives, civic duty, and closing the gap / Andrew Michael Flescher. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, ©2018. 177 pages ; 24 cm text rdacontent txt unmediated rdamedia n volume rdacarrier nc Includes bibliographical references and index. Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States.. Every ten minutes a new name is added to this list, while each day eight people die waiting for an organ to become available. Worse, the gap between those in need of an organ and the number of available donors is growing: our traditional reliance on cadaveric organ donation is insufficient, and in recent years there has been a decline in the number of living donors as well as in the percentage of living donors relative to overall kidney donors. Some transplant surgeons and policy advocates suggest a market solution and legalizing the sale of organs, Andrew Michael Flescher objects to this approach, citing concerns about social justice, commodification, and patient safety. Given that, what is the most efficacious means of attracting prospective living kidney donors? Flescher, drawing on scores of interviews with donors and patients, suggests that inculcating a sense of altruism and civic duty is a more effective means of increasing donor participation than purely financial incentives. He encourages individuals to spend time with patients on dialysis, advocating donor "chains" in order to facilitate relationships between donors and recipients, and creating sacred spaces in hospitals such as a "wall of heroes" to recognize those who sacrifice their body parts for others. Donation of organs, tissues, etc. United States. Donation of organs, tissues, etc. Moral and ethical aspects. local 4 Print books. Online version: Flescher, Andrew Michael, 1969- author. Organ shortage crisis in America Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2018 9781626165441 (DLC) 2017026296 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2019-05-16 0 RD129.5 .F58 2018 AU00000000013817 2019-05-16 00:00:00 215.00 2019-05-16 BOOKS