The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy Titmuss Richard MorrisPevná vazba
The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy Titmuss Richard MorrisPevná vazba Richard M. Honored by the "New York Times" as one of the ten most important books of the year when it first…
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The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy Titmuss Richard MorrisPevná vazba
Richard M. Honored by the "New York Times" as one of the ten most important books of the year when it first appeared in 1970, Titmuss s "The Gift Relationship" is even more topical now in an age of AIDS and changing health care policy. Titmuss s "The Gift Relationship" has long been acknowledged as one of the classic texts on social policy.
Titmuss contrasts the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is largely in the hands of for-profit enterprises and shows how a nonmarket system based on altruism is more effective than one that treats human blood as another commodity.This updated edition contains the original text along with new chapters that: A seemingly straightforward comparative study of blood donating in the United States and Britain, the book elegantly raises profound economic, political, and philosophical questions.