Jeffrey Prottas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1599863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Prottas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Prottas |
| SIGNATURE | PROTTAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Organs Donation or Routine Retrieval
Book reviewed in this article: The Most Useful Gift: Altruism and the Public Policy of Organ Transplants. By Jeffrey Prottas
Grounding Ethical Analysis on Hard Data
The Foetus as Transplant Donor: Scientific, Social, and Ethical Perspectives. By Peter McCullagh. New York: John Wiley & Sons. vi + 215 pp. $45.00, cloth. A central proposition of The Foetus as Transplant Donor is that any discussion of the ethical implications of scientific activities requires an accurate appreciation of the technical facts of that activity. As a result, over half the book's chapters are technical in nature. Although these chapt…
Case Studies
This case study involves a foreigner who has come to the United States hoping to obtain a kidney transplant. The woman's chances are not good because her funds are exhausted, kidneys are scarce, and U.S. citizens normally are given priority for available organs. Three commentators are asked on what grounds the decision to transplant non-immigrant aliens should be made, and by whom. Prottas, a member of the U.S. Task Force on Organ Transplantation…
The Impacts of Innovation
For an organization, innovation is the occasion for both risks and opportunities. The risks are obvious—the innovation may fail and the organization's investment in it thereby will be wasted. Much of the study of innovation has been about the nature of these risks and the probability of failure. This article discusses the failure of an innovation and analyzes its causes, but it goes further in considering the opportunities for organizational deve…
The Cost of Free Services
8. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; American Federation of Teachers; Fraternal Order of Police; International Association of Firefighters; American Association of Classified School Employees; Assembly of Governmental Employees; Civil Service Employees Association; Communications Workers of America; Transport Workers Union of America. 9. Ryutaro Komiya, Supply of Personal Savings, in Ryutaro Komiya, ed., Postwar Econo…
People-Processing
The Power of the Street-Level Bureaucrat in Public Service Bureaucracies
The difficulties of controlling the daily behavior of low level bureaucrats has been widely appreciated by both administrators and academic students of bureaucracy. This article provides a theoretically oriented explanation for this fact. Building on the concept of "boundary actor," it places the source of the low level bureaucrat's power in his/ her unique role as mediator between the bureaucracy and its "street-level" environment. The bureaucra…
The Cost of Free Services
8. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; American Federation of Teachers; Fraternal Order of Police; International Association of Firefighters; American Association of Classified School Employees; Assembly of Governmental Employees; Civil Service Employees Association; Communications Workers of America; Transport Workers Union of America. 9. Ryutaro Komiya, Supply of Personal Savings, in Ryutaro Komiya, ed., Postwar Econo…
The Power of the Street-Level Bureaucrat in Public Service Bureaucracies
The difficulties of controlling the daily behavior of low level bureaucrats has been widely appreciated by both administrators and academic students of bureaucracy. This article provides a theoretically oriented explanation for this fact. Building on the concept of "boundary actor," it places the source of the low level bureaucrat's power in his/ her unique role as mediator between the bureaucracy and its "street-level" environment. The bureaucra…
People-Processing
The Cost of Free Services
8. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; American Federation of Teachers; Fraternal Order of Police; International Association of Firefighters; American Association of Classified School Employees; Assembly of Governmental Employees; Civil Service Employees Association; Communications Workers of America; Transport Workers Union of America. 9. Ryutaro Komiya, Supply of Personal Savings, in Ryutaro Komiya, ed., Postwar Econo…
The Impacts of Innovation
For an organization, innovation is the occasion for both risks and opportunities. The risks are obvious—the innovation may fail and the organization's investment in it thereby will be wasted. Much of the study of innovation has been about the nature of these risks and the probability of failure. This article discusses the failure of an innovation and analyzes its causes, but it goes further in considering the opportunities for organizational deve…
Case Studies
This case study involves a foreigner who has come to the United States hoping to obtain a kidney transplant. The woman's chances are not good because her funds are exhausted, kidneys are scarce, and U.S. citizens normally are given priority for available organs. Three commentators are asked on what grounds the decision to transplant non-immigrant aliens should be made, and by whom. Prottas, a member of the U.S. Task Force on Organ Transplantation…
Grounding Ethical Analysis on Hard Data
The Foetus as Transplant Donor: Scientific, Social, and Ethical Perspectives. By Peter McCullagh. New York: John Wiley & Sons. vi + 215 pp. $45.00, cloth. A central proposition of The Foetus as Transplant Donor is that any discussion of the ethical implications of scientific activities requires an accurate appreciation of the technical facts of that activity. As a result, over half the book's chapters are technical in nature. Although these chapt…
Organs Donation or Routine Retrieval
Book reviewed in this article: The Most Useful Gift: Altruism and the Public Policy of Organ Transplants. By Jeffrey Prottas
Political science (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Organ Donation and Transplantation (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Marketing (2 works)