(Paperback)

(Paperback)

We call it lifeboat ethics: When there is not enough of this or that scarce good, who should die that others might survive Born in the 19th century, when shipwrecks were frequent and lifeboats scarce, it has become a 21st century dilemma. Who should get the last hospital bed, the scarce medical dru

(Hardback)

Koch (a bioethicist and contributor to CBC radio) provides an historical, philosophical, and concrete examination of the American system of distributing transplantable organs, and its relationship to the American health care system overall. He considers the issue in terms of lifeboat ethics, being c

(Hardback)

These problems are defined using multicriterion approach and resolved through a series of focus group discussions that involve medical and lay personnel. This is must reading for lay people, medical personal, and policymakers concerned with bioethics and medical philosophy issues.