Grounding Ethical Analysis on Hard Data

The Foetus as Transplant Donor: Scientific, Social, and Ethical Perspectives. By Peter McCullagh. New York: John Wiley & Sons. vi + 215 pp. $45.00, cloth. A central proposition of The Foetus as Transplant Donor is that any discussion of the ethical implications of scientific activities requires an accurate appreciation of the technical facts of that activity. As a result, over half the book's chapters are technical in nature. Although these chapters are perfectly comprehensible to the lay reader, and Peter McCullagh's argument about the importance of technical information is irrefutable, in practice it can lead to a bit of tedium. For instance, twenty-five pages about the outcome of fetal tissue transplantation in animals will tell most readers rather more about

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