Comments on: Last Best Gifts http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:56:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Gorkle http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167633 Gorkle Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:14:50 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167633 Like love and marriage, you can't have one without the other or so the cliche goes. You can't have commodification without rationalization so whatever else rationalizing - organzing replacement organ inventory involves, adding the market will intensify the consequences of rationalization. Yes? No? Stossel? Like love and marriage, you can’t have one without the other or so the cliche goes. You can’t have commodification without rationalization so whatever else rationalizing – organzing replacement organ inventory involves, adding the market will intensify the consequences of rationalization. Yes? No? Stossel?

]]> By: Eszter http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167583 Eszter Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:42:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167583 This is wonderful, congratulations! I wish the shipping wouldn't take so long, this way I won't be able to get it signed next week. This is wonderful, congratulations!

I wish the shipping wouldn’t take so long, this way I won’t be able to get it signed next week.

]]> By: tom s. http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167582 tom s. Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:17:46 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167582 ben, lewis hyde - thanks. ben, lewis hyde – thanks.

]]> By: Lewis Hyde http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167563 Lewis Hyde Sun, 06 Aug 2006 02:51:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167563 "Is there anything else of book length on this subject?" The old standard on this topic is: The Gift Relationship: from Human Blood to Social Policy by Richard M. Titmuss (London: Allen & Unwin, 1970). How nice to have a new analysis. Congratuations. “Is there anything else of book length on this subject?” The old standard on this topic is: The Gift Relationship: from Human Blood to Social Policy by Richard M. Titmuss (London: Allen & Unwin, 1970).

How nice to have a new analysis. Congratuations.

]]> By: Bethany Bryson http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167538 Bethany Bryson Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:16:12 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167538 I've seen the previews and I can promise you all the kitten is safe. I just ordered three copies because that's about how many I need on hand when I really use a book heavily (then want to loan it out and give it away, etc.) I'll end up buying more later, and making everyone I know buy more. I’ve seen the previews and I can promise you all the kitten is safe. I just ordered three copies because that’s about how many I need on hand when I really use a book heavily (then want to loan it out and give it away, etc.) I’ll end up buying more later, and making everyone I know buy more.

]]> By: Ben http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167512 Ben Sat, 05 Aug 2006 08:31:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167512 Slightly off topic (but maybe reply to #3) has anyone read Cecile Fabre's <i>Whose Body is it Anyway? Justice and the Integrity of the Person</i>? Slightly off topic (but maybe reply to #3) has anyone read Cecile Fabre’s Whose Body is it Anyway? Justice and the Integrity of the Person?

]]> By: djw http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167463 djw Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:58:34 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167463 Congrats! Sounds fascinating/ Congrats! Sounds fascinating/

]]> By: Antti Nannimus http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167451 Antti Nannimus Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:25:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167451 Hi, We're really gonna miss that kitty. Have a nice day, Antti Hi,

We’re really gonna miss that kitty.

Have a nice day,
Antti

]]> By: Matt http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167436 Matt Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:24:07 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167436 But what if we could cut up that kitten, and transplant its organs in to 5 or 6 other kittens, all of whom needed transplants, two lungs, a heart, a liver, two kiddnys, and all by some strange coincidence were just matched with this kitten... hmmm.. there may be a philosophy paper in this... But what if we could cut up that kitten, and transplant its organs in to 5 or 6 other kittens, all of whom needed transplants, two lungs, a heart, a liver, two kiddnys, and all by some strange coincidence were just matched with this kitten… hmmm.. there may be a philosophy paper in this…

]]> By: Dan Simon http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167427 Dan Simon Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:07:01 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167427 I guess your publisher nixed the title, <em>Two Nations, Divided By a Common Lung Wish</em>? I guess your publisher nixed the title, Two Nations, Divided By a Common Lung Wish?

]]> By: dearieme http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167401 dearieme Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:25:00 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167401 Barry, I agree; they are delicious. Barry, I agree; they are delicious.

]]> By: ingrid robeyns http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167388 ingrid robeyns Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:18:59 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167388 Many congratulations! I know many people might find this rather irrelevant for an academic book, but I think your book has a BEAUTIFUL cover - both the composition and the colours. Unfortunately, I've been told both by an editor of an academic publisher and by an editor from a commercial publisher which is publishing academic books, that this doesn't have an impact on your sales (sorry!). Many congratulations!

I know many people might find this rather irrelevant for an academic book, but I think your book has a BEAUTIFUL cover – both the composition and the colours. Unfortunately, I’ve been told both by an editor of an academic publisher and by an editor from a commercial publisher which is publishing academic books, that this doesn’t have an impact on your sales (sorry!).

]]> By: Dan Drezner http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167387 Dan Drezner Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:08:50 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167387 I promise to donate a kidney to the kitten if anything bad should happen. Not necessarily my kidney.... I promise to donate a kidney to the kitten if anything bad should happen.

Not necessarily my kidney….

]]> By: toadman http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167386 toadman Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:37:21 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167386 <i>I’d like to think that the book has something new to contribute...</i> Careful, there might be a writer for the Telegraph.co.uk that might disagree. Congradulations on the book. I gave my heart away once, and I haven't seen it since. I’d like to think that the book has something new to contribute…

Careful, there might be a writer for the Telegraph.co.uk that might disagree.

Congradulations on the book. I gave my heart away once, and I haven’t seen it since.

]]> By: tina http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-167384 tina Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:10:29 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/03/last-best-gifts/#comment-167384 Lovely! I will pick it up at the ASA. Lovely! I will pick it up at the ASA.

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