Universal Journal of Public Health Vol. 4(2), pp. 82 - 87
DOI: 10.13189/ujph.2016.040206
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Medical Decision-making and Logics of Negotiation in Living Organ Donation

Natascha Sánchez Hövel ^*
Department of Social Anthropology, Complutense University Madrid, Spain

ABSTRACT

End-stage renal disease requires replacement therapy including renal transplant. Far from being a matter of biomedical criteria or individual choice, the decision whether preferring a dead or a living donor depends on availability. In Spain, cadaveric donation has been the hegemonic practice with an only recent introduction of living donation. The present paper focuses on the logics in the process of decision-making and negotiation between medical professionals and living donors while shaping, developing and giving meaning to an emerging social practice. Concepts of blood, courage, legitimacy and nature are central in the discourse of decision-making inserted in traditional constructions of kinship.

KEYWORDS
Living Organ Donation, Spanish Model of Coordination and Transplantation, Decision-making, Negotiation, Social Constructions

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Natascha Sánchez Hövel , "Medical Decision-making and Logics of Negotiation in Living Organ Donation," Universal Journal of Public Health, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 82 - 87, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/ujph.2016.040206.

(b). APA Format:
Natascha Sánchez Hövel (2016). Medical Decision-making and Logics of Negotiation in Living Organ Donation. Universal Journal of Public Health, 4(2), 82 - 87. DOI: 10.13189/ujph.2016.040206.