1st Edition
The Courage to Fail A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis
Edited By Judith P. Swazey
Copyright 2002
496 Pages
by
Routledge
496 Pages
by
Routledge
437 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. Built around a series of case studies, The Courage to Fail is the product of collaborative first-hand research concerned with various social phenomena generated by transplantation and dialysis. The authors examine... Read more
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
Biography
Judith P. Swazey
