The ethics of transplants

Description:

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.

subjects: Moral and ethical aspects,  Transplantation of organs, tissues,  Procurement of organs, tissues,  Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.,  Tissue and Organ Procurement,  Ethics,  Economics,  Living Donors,  Bioethical Issues,  Organ Transplantation,  Transplantation,  Transplants,  Unrelated Donors