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The limits of principle : deciding who lives and what dies / Tom Koch.

Title
The limits of principle : deciding who lives and what dies / Tom Koch.
Author
Koch, Tom, 1949-

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Koch, Tom,
Description
x, 176 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  • A twenty-first century science will not easily answer to an eighteenth century philosophy. Abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, and organ transplantation all raise seemingly irresolvable issues. Koch offers new approaches - public and inclusive - that may resolve them.
  • After explaining the limits of principled ethics, he offers new approaches and then uses them to examine two critical issues: how do we decide who will receive organ transplants and "the problem of Baby K," the care or non-care of "brain stem babies." This is a unique, innovative argument that challenges traditional bioethics' approach to complex problems.
Subject
  • Allocation of organs, tissues, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Anencephaly > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Anencephaly
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Medical ethics > Methodology
  • Morals
ISBN
0275964078 (alk. paper)
LCCN
98023553
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries