Transplant Recipients Seletion: Peacetime vs. Wartime Triage

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1 (4):327 (1992)
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Abstract

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

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Health-care needs and distributive justice.Norman Daniels - 1981 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 10 (2):146-179.
Equality and rights in medical care.Charles Fried - 1976 - Hastings Center Report 6 (1):29-34.

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