The limits of principle
Subtitle: deciding who lives and what dies
By: Tom Koch
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780275964078
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Medizinische Ethik; Methodology; Transplantation; Patient Selection; Medical ethics; Medical Ethics; Anencephaly; Allocation of organs, tissues; Aufsatzsammlung
Description: "A twenty-first century science will not easily answer to an eighteenth century philosophy. Abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, and organ transplantation all raise seemingly irresolvable issues. Koch offers new approaches - public and inclusive - that may resolve them. After explaining the limits of principled ethics, he offers new approaches and then uses them to examine two critical issues: how do we decide who will receive organ transplants and "the problem of Baby K," the care or non-care of "brain stem babies." This is a unique, innovative argument that challenges traditional bioethics' approach to complex problems."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-168) and index.