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Ethical Issues in Dialysis
Alan Spital, Series Editor: The Ethics of Organ Transplantation for Prisoners
Author(s) -
Kahn Jeffrey
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
seminars in dialysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1525-139X
pISSN - 0894-0959
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-139x.2003.16074.x
Subject(s) - medicine , organ transplantation , transplantation , ethical issues , dialysis , health care , organ donation , law , engineering ethics , psychiatry , surgery , political science , engineering
Organ transplantation for prisoners raises numerous ethical issues. Questions immediately emerge about how to justify the use of scarce organs for prisoners when law‐abiding citizens are waiting. The answer to whether and why we ought to perform organ transplants for prisoners lies in how we understand society's commitments to prisoners' health and health care, and whether being incarcerated changes the priority of a patient waiting for a transplant. While prisoners forfeit many freedoms, access to and the provision of adequate health care are guaranteed to them, and ought to include access to organ transplants.