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Transplant Recipients Seletion: Peacetime vs. Wartime Triage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

Rosamond Rhodes ,
Charles Miller  and
Myron Schwartz
Rosamond Rhodes
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY
Charles Miller
Affiliation:
Alfred and Florence Gross Professor of Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY, and Director of Liver Transplantation, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Myron Schwartz
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY, and the Assistant Director of Liver Transplantation, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
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It is a common assumption in ethics that everyone is due equal access to basic human goods. In our modern society, at least since the French Revolution, healthcare is counted along with food, shelter, and security as such a basic good. Anyone suffering from a treatable life-threatening disease can therefore, be seen as having a prima facie claim on medical treatment.

Type
Special Section: Organ Ethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , Fall 1992 , pp. 327 - 331
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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