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counter-conducts, as happened in Brazil where the introduction of a system based on presumed consent was followed by a decrease in organ donation. A further argument made against the soft opt-out system is that it may be impracticable as what constitutes ‘family consent’ is not always clear and may not always be achievable. The dead body Historically, the contribution of transplant medicine to redefining the boundaries between the dead and living body, and to the emergence in the 1960s of the idea of ‘brain death’, is widely recognised (Miller, 2009). Articles in
of funding from the Celtic Tiger years (Ireland’s economic boom), the reform process also sought to amend for serious shortcomings in the management of the sector since the 1960s. Although official government policy since this time sought to 230 Governing neoliberal healthcare agendas enable older people to remain living in their own homes as long as possible, in practice, successive governments failed to develop home-care and community-based services, focusing instead on providing a limited supply of residential care and relying on families to provide informal