Your life or mine: how geoethics can resolve the conflict between public and private interests in xenotransplantation
III Look Before You Leap: Technological Risks of Xenotransplantation -- Introduction -- Blood Sucking Host Hoppers: Zoonotic and Xenogeneic Bugs -- Theoretical Likelihood of Xenogeneic Diseases -- Practical Experience with Xenogeneic Infections -- Scientist as Lawyer: Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence -- Mi Casa Es Su Casa? Issues of Public Health Acceptability -- The U.K. Approach -- The U.S. Approach -- Stasi Medicine? - How Surveillance Can Coexist with Human Rights -- Consent, Informed or Presumed? -- Community Consent -- Life Trumps Autonomy? -- Conclusion -- IV Of Pigs and Men: Issues of Speciesism and Chimerism -- Introduction -- Are All Animals Created Equal? -- We Feel Your Pain -- Agreeing to Disagree -- Singer: Weigh Animals Like Humans -- Regan: Don't Play the Weighing Game with Life -- Frey: Humans Outweigh Animals by a Longshot -- Leahy: Weigh it in Words -- How Much Does Private Language Count? -- Physiological Signs of Pain -- Only Language Separates Us From Them -- Giving Darwin Some Respect -- Chimerism and Its Discontents -- Piled High and Deep: The Realities of Pork -- Transgressing the Pig Genome -- Transgressing Humanity -- Transgressive Psychology -- Conclusion: No Revolution Likely on the Animal Phann -- V The Right to Life: Society's Obligation to Provide Health Care and Xenotransplantation -- Introduction -- Ought Implies Kant -- Berlin's Polarization and the Power of Negative Thinking -- Dealing in John Rawls: Primary Goods in a Just Society -- Don't Forget About the Health Benefits! -- Doyal and Gough's Theory of Human Needs -- Why Must My Rights Be Everyone's Rights? -- Giving an Inch and Taking a Mile: Can Health Care Include Xenotransplantation? -- No Religious Preference -- Conclusion -- VI Is Xenotransplantation Worth the Risk? -- Introduction -- Truth or Consequences: Incommensurability of Negativities