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Black Markets The Supply and Demand of Body Parts

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ISBN-10: 0521852803

ISBN-13: 9780521852807

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michele Goodwin

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In direct response to indefinite delays on the national transplantation waitlists and an inadequate supply of organs, a growing number of terminally ill Americans are turning to international underground markets and brokers for organs. Offering a contemporary view of organ and tissue supply and demand, Michele Goodwin explores the legal, racial and social nuances of current altruistic institutionalized procurement schemes. It is understandably not publicized that Chinese inmates sitting on death row and the economically disadvantaged in India and Brazil are the most often compromised co-participants in the negotiation process and supply kidney and other organs for Americans as well as other…    
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Book details

List price: $62.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/27/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Michele Goodwin is the Everett Fraser Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota. She holds joint appointments at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Prior to teaching law, Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Law and Social Inquiry and the Harvard/Stanford/Duke Journal of Law and the Biosciences. She is the author or editor of four books and more than sixty articles and book chapters. Her editorials and commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Forbes, Gene Watch, Christian Science Monitor,…    

Introduction
Institutional supply and demand
Nuances, judicial authority, and legal limits of altruism
Equal opportunity rationing: racial and economic disparities
Legal Frameworks and Alternatives
The legal process of procurement and allocation: regulatory frame
Presumed consent
Commodification
Tissue sales: an African American predicament?: critiquing the slavery and black body market comparison
The private and public financial transaction in tissue transplantation
African Americans and organ sales
Conclusion