Scarce Goods
Justice, Fairness, and Organ Transplantation
We call it lifeboat ethics: When there is not enough of this or that scarce good, who should die that others might survive? Born in the 19th century, when shipwrecks were frequent and lifeboats scarce, it has become a 21st century dilemma. Who should get the last hospital bed, the scarce medical drug, the limited educational doctor, the needed transplantable human heart? Tom Koch considers both lifeboat ethics and its modern application to the distribution of transplantable human organs in the United States. He shows that the scarcity of organs is exacerbated where not created by racial and regional inequalities inherent in the American healt…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-275-97433-6
- EAN: 9780275974336
- Produktnummer: 1484558
- Verlag: Praeger Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 270 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B14.9 cm x D3.0 cm 445 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 445
Über den Autor
TOM KOCH is a writer and bioethicist specializing in medical ethics. A frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines, and the CBC Radio, he is the author of 11 earlier books and scores of academic articles.
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