The Courage to Fail

A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis
Herausgeber: Swazey, Judith P

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The title of this profound work conveys the bold, uncertain, and often dangerous adventure in which medical professionals and their organ transplant and dialysis patients are engaged

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 437
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781138534896
• ISBN-10: 1138534897
• Artikelnr.: 50857302

Autorenporträt

Judith P. Swazey

Inhaltsangabe

1: Patterns in Therapeutic Innovation: Transplantation
1: Gift Exchange and Gatekeeping
2: Specialists in Uncertainty: The Problem of Rejection
3: The Experiment-Therapy Dilemma
2: The Courage to Fail Ethos
4: The Physician-Investigator and His Patients
5: The Heart Transplant Moratorium
6: The Case of the Artificial Heart
3: Patterns in Therapeutic Innovation: Dialysis
7: "To Give Life": A Study of Seattle's Hemodialysis Program
8: Patient Selection and the Right to Die: Problems Facing Seattle's Kidney Center
9: Ernie Crowfeather
4: Changing Perspectives on Transplantation and Dialysis
10: Transplantation in the 1970s: A Revised Paradigm of Therapeutic Innovation
11: The Democratization of Dialysis: Public Law 92-603
12: The Societal Meaning of The Courage to Fail