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Beyond Gift And Bargain: Some Suggestions For Increasing Kidney Exchanges, Nathan B. Oman
Beyond Gift And Bargain: Some Suggestions For Increasing Kidney Exchanges, Nathan B. Oman
Nathan B. Oman
Each year, thousands of people in the United States die from end stage renal disease (ESRD), despite the fact that we have the medical knowledge necessary to save them. The reason is simple: these people need a kidney transplant and we have too few kidneys. Given our current technology, the only way to meet the massive annual shortfall between the number of kidneys that are donated and the number of kidneys that are necessary to save the lives of those with ESRD is to increase the number of living donations. The debate on how to do so has often pitted …
Organizations As Evil Structures, Cary Federman, Dave Holmes
Organizations As Evil Structures, Cary Federman, Dave Holmes
Cary Federman
Nursing practice in forensic psychiatry opens new horizons in nursing. This complex, professional, nursing practice involves the coupling of two contradictory socioprofessional mandates: to punish and to provide care. The purpose of this chapter is to present nursing practice in a disciplinary setting as a problem of governance. A Foucauldian perspective allows us to understand the way forensic psychiatric nursing is involved in the governance of mentally ill criminals through a vast array of power techniques (sovereign, disciplinary, and pastoral), which posit nurses as “subjects of power.” These nurses are also “objects of power” in that nursing practice is constrained …