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Careless Thought Costs Lives
Janet Radcliffe Richards
其他書名
The Ethics of Transplants
出版
OUP Oxford
, 2013-10-24
主題
Medical / General
Medical / Ethics
Medical / Surgery / Transplant
Philosophy / General
Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Science / General
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
ISBN
0199678774
9780199678778
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SSuRAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.