Your life or mine
Subtitle: how geoethics can resolve the conflict between public and private interests in xenotransplantation
By: Martine Rothblatt.
Publisher: Ashgate Dartmouth
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Zoonoses.; Xenografts.; Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.; Xenografts -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Complications.; Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Medical_Law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the organ shortage is a major problem that defies conventional solutions; title: Brave new organs: the status of technological solutions to the problem; title: Look before you leap: technological risks of xenotransplantation; title: Of pigs and men: issues of speciesism and chimerism; title: The right to life: society's obligation to provide health care and xenotransplantation; title: Is xenotransplantation worth the risk?; title: A geoethical solution to the conflict between private and public interests in xenotransplantation.