The ethics of transplants : why careless thought costs lives / Janet Radcliffe Richards.
Richards, Janet Radcliffe.
2012
RD120.7 .R53 2012 (Mapit)
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Title The ethics of transplants : why careless thought costs lives / Janet Radcliffe Richards.
Author Richards, Janet Radcliffe.
ISBN 9780199575558 (alk. paper)
019957555X (alk. paper)
Imprint Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description x, 278 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number RD120.7 .R53 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 174.297954
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (268-274) and index.
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Methodological morals
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