Careless Thought Costs Lives: The Ethics of Transplants

by Janet Richards

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019957555X
• ISBN13: 9780199575558
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.7"