Organ Donation and Transplantation: Body Organs as an Exchangeable Socio-cultural Resource

by OritBrawerBen-David (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $117.41

  Assesses the roles played by life and death in organ donation within the Israeli Jewish community. The author also examines issues of social legitimacy connected to organ donation in the Israeli society, institutionalization of transplantations, and transplantation as a trigger for transformation to hero status.