Transplantation Ethics

by Robert M. Veatch and Lainie F. Ross

Book Overview

Three decades after the first heart transplant surgery stunned the world, organs, including eyes, lungs, livers, kidneys, and hearts, are transplanted every day. But despite its increasingly routine nature--or perhaps because of it--transplantation offers enormous ethical challenges. A medical ethicist who has been involved in the organ transplant debate for many years, Robert M. Veatch explores a variety of questions that continue to vex the transplantation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878408126
• ISBN13: 9780878408122
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary