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008 120525s2012 enk b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9780199575558 (cloth : alk. paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn755699414
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050 00 $aRD120.7$b.R53 2012
082 04 $a174.297954$223
100 1 $aRichards, Janet Radcliffe.
245 14 $aThe ethics of transplants :$bwhy careless thought costs lives /$cJanet Radcliffe Richards.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2012.
300 $ax, 278 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (268-274) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Procurement from the living -- Methodological morals -- Procurement from the dead -- Penumbral problems.
520 $aArgues 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.
650 0 $aTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aProcurement of organs, tissues, etc$xMoral and ethical aspects.