Should a 13-year-old have the right to decide whether to acept a potentially life-saving heart transplant? That’s the question posed by the British case of Hannah Jones. Her story is told well in this article in The Guardian and in the news video below:
Month: November 2008
Organ Donation in the UK
The United Kingdom has just completed a review of its organ donation system. The British, like others, have a long waiting list of people who need organ transplants. It is estimated that 1000 people a year there die while waiting for an operation. (In the US the number is above 7000 per year.) The Guardian…
5 ethical issues for President Obama
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has started a five-part weekly series leading up to Inauguration Day to discuss various ethical issues that confront our 44th president: — Who will the Obama administration bring into federal service? What virtues will they be looking for and what ethical considerations will guide their selection? — What tools…
Causes of the Meltdown
We are living through the greatest economic crisis since World War II, if not the Great Depression. It will take regulators, political scientists, economists, and historians years to sort out all of the sources of the crisis, although we can hope that concrete steps will be taken soon to right the economy, and restructure the…