@article{452443, author = {Richards, Janet Radcliffe.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/452443}, title = {The ethics of transplants : why careless thought costs lives /}, publisher = {Oxford University Press,}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {452443}, pages = {x, 278 p. ;}, address = {Oxford :}, year = {2012}, }