The Ethics of Organ Transplantation
$83.46
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2011
Summary
An ever-increasing demand for organs, with over 100,000 people on waiting lists, has driven a relentless search for new sources of organs. In 1995 the American Medical Association supported taking organs from anencephalic infants, children born without brains. In 1999 the Chinese government began removing organs from members of the politically outcast religious group Falun Gong, making a lucrative profit from sales to foreigners. Recently in Belgium physicians have euthanised a patient by …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780813218748 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0813218748 |
| Author: | Steven J. Jensen |
| Publisher: | The Catholic University of America Press |
| Imprint: | The Catholic University of America Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 589g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 149mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
“The book raises all the right questions in the field and provides reasonable responses to them from the wealth of the Catholic moral tradition.”–Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P, The Thomist
“Books Received”–Ethics & Medicine, An International Journal of Bioethics
About The Author
Steven J. Jensen
Steven J. Jensen is associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston and specialises in the areas of ethics and medieval philosophy. He is the author of Good and Evil Actions: A Journey through Saint Thomas Aquinas (CUA Press).
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