Number	18635
Subject	Medicine
Source	Praeger Publishers (Westport, Connecticut)
State	CT
Year	2001
Publication Date	November
Summary	Koch's book examines the origins of scarcity of blood and graft organs. The main finding is that the problem has existed at least since a famous legal case of U.S. v. Holmes, 1842, which dealt wit the question of lifeboat ethics - "who should die so that others might survive?" Koch looks at the lifeboat ethics' modern application to the distribution of transplantable organs. Using mapping software, the author reveals that "the scarcity of organs is exacerbated, where not created, by racial and regional inequalities inherent in the American health care and transplant system."
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	5
Keywords	BOOK;Department of Health and Human Services;United Network for Organ Sharing;race;ethnicity;minorities;National Organ Transplant Act;justice;poverty;health insurance;GIS
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