Fault and the allocation of spare organs

This paper argues that rectificatory justice should supplement distributive justice in allocating priority of access to scarce medical resources. Where a patient is at fault for the scarcity of healthy organs a principle of restitution requires that she should give priority to the faultless. Such re...

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Main Author: Smart, B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 1994
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 1994, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-30
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