The ethics of transplants : why careless thought costs lives / Janet Radcliffe Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Janet Radcliffe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organ Transplantation--ethics.

Bioethical Issues.

Living Donors--ethics.

Tissue and Organ Procurement--economics.

Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.

Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.

Medical Subjects:

Organ Transplantation--ethics.

Bioethical Issues.

Living Donors--ethics.

Tissue and Organ Procurement--economics.

Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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.

Contents:

Procurement from the living

Methodological morals

Procurement from the dead

Penumbral problems.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (268-274) and index.

ISBN:

9780199575558

019957555X

OCLC:

755699414