Presuming consent, presuming refusal: organ donation and communal structure.

摘要: Donating, distributing and ultimately transplanting organs each has distinct ethical problems. In this paper I suggest that the first question is not what should be done but a fair way in which of these problems can addressed. Experts--whether transplant surgeons, policy analysts, political scientists or ethicists--can help guide cannot by themselves make such decisions. making decisions difference between identified non-identified lives crucial. an approach reason tempered compassion ("compassionate rationality") when dealing with unidentified controlled ("rational compassion") must serve us well. Ultimately sort are prone to sturdy democratic process possible only preconditions person, economic educational democracy met.