Jonathan Hughes

Jonathan Hughes asserts in the following viewpoint that transplanting the organs of animals into humans is unsafe and unethical. According to Hughes, animal diseases could be passed along to the human recipient and then transmitted by the patient to the general population. While the organ recipient may well accept these risks, Hughes contends that such transplantation procedures would unfairly put other people in danger without their knowledge or consent. Jonathan Hughes is a lecturer in political thought in the department of government at the University of Manchester.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to Hughes, how might the rate of organ rejection be reduced"
2. Why is it impossible to calculate the risk of an epidemic caused by animal-to-human transplants, according to the author"
3. According to Hughes, what...