Careless Thought Costs Lives - The Ethics of Transplants (Paperback)

Everyone knows that transplantation can save and transform lives, but thousands die every year on waiting lists because there are not enough organs available. If more people could be persuaded to donate, more lives could be saved. But is individual reluctance to donate the root of the problem? Individual choices are made against the background of prevailing laws, conventions and institutions, and many of those present direct or indirect obstacles to organ procurement, from both the living and the dead. If any of those cannot be justified, the deaths they cause are similarly unjustified. In The Ethics of Transplants, Janet Radcliffe Richards, a leading moral philosopher and author of The Sceptical Feminist and Human Nature after Darwin, casts a sharp critical eye over these institutional barriers to organ procurement, and the logic of the arguments offered in their defence. Her incisive reasoning forces us to confront the implications of unexamined intuitions, leads to several unexpected conclusions, and in doing so demonstrates the crucial importance of clear thinking in public debate. Originally published in hardback as The Ethics of Transplants.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	2014
Authors:	Janet Radcliffe Richards
Dimensions:	196 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-967877-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Medicine > Surgery > Transplant surgery Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > General
LSN:	0-19-967877-4
Barcode:	9780199678778

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