Legal solutions to Ontario's organ shortage: redrawing the boundaries of consent.

نویسنده

  • Brent Arnold
چکیده

[I]f a gift-of-life ethic is preferred and policy makers cannot solve the philosophical dispute over emotion in morality, a dispute that divides proponents of altruism and of routine procurement, then policy makers could judge whether the prevailing model of altruism has received a fair and sufficient test. This judgment would flow from an initial endorsement of altruism as a preferred public policy, a policy that may be modified or abandoned when it proves ineffective or too costly. —Law Reform Commission of Canada

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Health law journal

دوره 13  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005