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Organ donation [electronic resource] : opportunities for action / Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; James F. Childress and Catharyn T. Liverman, editors.

By: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation.
Contributor(s): Childress, James F | Liverman, Catharyn T | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006Description: xv, 339 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Donation of organs, tissues, etc | Transplantation of organs, tissues, etcGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.19/795 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Also issued online.
Contents:
Trends and patterns -- Perspectives and principles -- Systems to support organ donation -- Expanding the population of potential donors -- Promoting and facilitating individual and family decisions to donate -- Presumed consent -- Incentives for deceased donation -- Ethical considerations in living donation -- Opportunities for action.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Trends and patterns -- Perspectives and principles -- Systems to support organ donation -- Expanding the population of potential donors -- Promoting and facilitating individual and family decisions to donate -- Presumed consent -- Incentives for deceased donation -- Ethical considerations in living donation -- Opportunities for action.

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Also issued online.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

This study was supported by Award no. HHSH23457010 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services