The ethics of transplants : why careless thought costs lives / Janet Radcliffe Richards.
The ethics of transplants : why careless thought costs lives / Janet Radcliffe Richards.
The ethics of transplants : why careless thought costs lives / Janet Radcliffe Richards.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Date
2012.
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N174.29795/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 278 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Procurement from the living -- Methodological morals -- Procurement from the dead -- Penumbral problems.
Publication information
Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2012.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Organ Transplantation--ethics
- Bioethical Issues
- Living Donors--ethics
- Tissue and Organ Procurement--economics
- Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics
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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 mo...
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The ethics of transplants : why careless thought costs lives / Janet Radcliffe Richards.
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Includes bibliographical references (268-274) and index.
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N174.29795/1
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74VvbPNDwpXg
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ISBN
019957555X (alk. paper)
9780199575558 (alk. paper)
DDC
174.297954
MMS ID
991014735549702626
