How transplants are causing ethical dilemmas
The trouble with many significant advances in medicine is that that they take us out of our moral depth. They may raise quite different problems from the ones we are used to and, if we are not careful, we may inadvertently undermine the wonderful potential of new technologies by forcing them into existing legal, ethical and institutional frameworks.
Transplantation is a case in point. Transplants save and transform lives; but the …
How transplants are causing ethical dilemmas
