The ethics of transplants
Subtitle: why careless thought costs lives
By: Janet Radcliffe Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780199575558
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Transplantation of organs, tissues; Procurement of organs, tissues
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (268-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Procurement from the living; title: Methodological morals; title: Procurement from the dead; title: Penumbral problems.