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WHEN GOOD ORGANS GO TO BAD PEOPLE.
- Source :
- Bioethics; Feb2008, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p77-83, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- A number of philosophers have argued that alcoholics should receive lower priority for liver transplantations because they are morally responsible for their medical conditions. In this paper, I argue that this conclusion is false. Moral responsibility should not be used as a criterion for the allocation of medical resources. The reason I advance goes further than the technical problem of assessing moral responsibility. The deeper problem is that using moral responsibility as an allocation criterion undermines the functioning of medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02699702
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Bioethics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28680656
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2007.00606.x