Are alcoholics less deserving of liver transplants?
When does behavior trigger a lesser claim to medical resources? When does chronic drinking, for example, mean that one has a lesser claim to a liver transplant? Only when one's behavior becomes a callous indifference to others' needs--when one knows the consequences of heavy drinking and knows that by drinking one may end up depriving someone else of a liver.
Brudney
Daniel
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University of Chicago, USA.
D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D008108:Liver Diseases, Alcoholic / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000941:ethics*; D028681:Moral Obligations; D018579:Patient Selection / Q000941:ethics*; D012935:Social Justice; D012941:Social Responsibility