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  • Title: Moral pluralism and the use of anencephalic tissue and organs.
    Author: Cutter MA.
    Journal: J Med Philos; 1989 Feb; 14(1):89-95. PubMed ID: 2769110.
    Abstract:
    Cutter's essay is one of eight in this issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy on controversies surrounding the use of tissues and organs from anencephalic fetuses and newborns for transplantation. She reviews some of the disagreements clustering around three major issues concerning the status of anencephalics as donors: the definition of brain life, the definition of personhood, and the definition of brain death. She also assesses how the other essayists in this issue offer solutions to the debate in light of a pluralism of moral beliefs in Western culture.
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