Richards, Janet Radcliffe. <br/><br/>
The ethics of transplants :  why careless thought costs lives / 
spine title :  The ethics of transplants. 
Janet Radcliffe Richards. 
 - x, 278 pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references : 268-274 and index. 
<br/><br/>Procurement from the living -- Methodological morals -- Procurement from the dead -- Penumbral problems. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199575558  RM95.67 019957555X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.