Title Kidney to share / Martha Gershun and John D. Lantos, MD.

Publication Info.

Ithaca [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction	362.1783 GERSHUN	Check Shelf

Description	x, 210 pages ; 23 cm.
Series	The culture and politics of health care work
	Culture and politics of health care work.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	"A woman who decides to donate a kidney to a stranger tells her story, and a bioethicist reviews the history of ethical controversies surrounding organ donation. These different perspectives on kidney donation give the reader a sense of how this medical technology has evolved and how ethics and the law have changed to make organ donation possible"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Gershun, Martha.
	Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects.
	Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Organ donors -- United States -- Biography.
	Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst00896819
	Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00896822
	Organ donors. (OCoLC)fst01047588
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Added Author	Lantos, John D., author.
Other Form:	Online version: Gershun, Martha. Kidney to share. Ithaca [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501755453 (DLC) 2020056164
ISBN	9781501755439 (hardcover)
	1501755439 (hardcover)
	9781501755453 (pdf)
	9781501755446 (epub)

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