The ethics of transplants : why careless thought costs lives / Janet Radcliffe Richards.

Author
Richards, Janet Radcliffe [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Description
x, 278 pages ; 23 cm

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    Argues that although people have strong feelings about their own organs, the deepest problems may not lie in a simple unwillingness to make them available, but in legal and institutional restrictions on the choices they are allowed to make. Through a series of arguments the author concludes that these restrictions are not justified by our normal moral standards, and are not even a response to popular demand, but lie in deep preconceptions of the people who make the rules. Careless moral reasoning, like careless medical practice, really can cost lives.--From publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (268-274) and index.
    Contents
    • Procurement from the living
    • Methodological morals
    • Procurement from the dead
    • Penumbral problems.
    ISBN
    • 9780199575558 ((alk. paper))
    • 019957555X ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2011277608
    OCLC
    755699414
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