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Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants

This book is the product of an ambitious amalgam of extensive empirical work, comparative legal study, and interdisciplinary theoretical engagement. The book draws on two years of ethnographic observations and interviews with an understudied, hard to reach community—medics, brokers and patients—that is surrounded by various regulatory gatekeepers. Over 50 interviews were conducted in English, Hebrew and French. The data-gathering phase spanned over two jurisdictions: the United States and Israel. The analysis brings together various bodies of literature from medical law, socio-legal studies, legal ethnography, and the anthropology of the person and of bureaucracy.