The ethics of transplants : why careless thought costs lives / Janet Radcliffe Richards.
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)
019957555X (alk. paper)
Publication Details
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (268-274) and index.
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Table of Contents
Procurement from the living
Methodological morals
Procurement from the dead
Penumbral problems.
Methodological morals
Procurement from the dead
Penumbral problems.