The Ethics of Medical Choice

In the medical field in general, and in organ transplants in particular, what effect can the institutional agents' perceptions of equity have? This text shows, through examples in France, Germany, Norway and the USA, the way in which equality of access by potential beneficiaries is handled.

In the medical field in general, and in the one of organ transplants in particular, what effect can the institutional agents' perceptions of equity have? "The Ethics of Medical Choice" shows through examples in France, Germany, Norway and the United States, the way in which the issue of equality of access by potential beneficiaries is handled. It emerges from this controversial study that universality of access is still a long way off.

Ethics of medical choices, Jon Elster. Centralization and discretionary power - kidney transplantation in France, Nicolas Herpin and Florence Paterson, OSC. Obstacles to sperm donations in France, Nicolas Herpin. Surgeons under surveillance - dialysis and transplantation in the United States, J. Michael Dennis. The colour of genes in the United States, J. Michael Dennis. Donations from the living - are the French and the Norwegians altruistic?, Hilde Lorentzen and Florence Paterson. Three countries, three systems, J. Michael Dennis.