Organ allocation and patient responsibility: Re-examining the concept of responsibility in light of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas.

A persisting, unresolved debate in the bioethics literature was the impetus behind this work. The focus chosen was the need for replacement organs for those whose illnesses appear to be related to addiction to alcohol or tobacco. The initial section thus examines the more factual aspects of both add...

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Main Author: Burbidge, Nancy M.
Other Authors: Doucet, Hubert
Format: Others
Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/8995
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-7589