If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?

"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." --Health and Canadian Society

"Insightful and thought-provoking. . . . As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly . . . we would all be better off if the ethicists spoke first and not last." --The Washington Post

"Caplan's views are important and instructive. . . . [This] book represents some of his best work." --New England Journal of Medicine

"Caplan's [book] is thought provoking, insightful, and well argued. I recommend it highly." --The Journal of the American Medical Association

" . . . a generously illustrated discourse on method in medical and practical ethics." --Ethics

A member of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform examines some of the most controversial biomedical issues of our time.

Author: Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 08/22/1992
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.14w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9780253208682

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/28/1994

About the Author

ARTHUR L. CAPLAN is Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Surgery at the University of Minnesota.