For this assignment you will be responding from the perspective of a bioethics consultant:
The US Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation is in the process of revising their current policies. Recognizing your prominence in field of bioethics, the Committee has requested your assistance with ranking groups of people for potential kidney, liver or lung transplants. The groups under consideration are Alcoholics, lifetime smokers, prisoners (outside of death row inmates) and illegal immigrants.
As you begin thinking of how you’ll rank the groups consider these points:
•Any alternatives that may be available and the relevant cost factors that might be associated with the fair allocation, under the bioethics principle of justice.
•If you do not believe in ranking the individuals, consider what method you would find more agreeable for allocating the organs.
•You must support your opinion with ethical justifications using any of the relevant principles of bioethics and any appropriate theories eg principles of autonomy, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence.
References.
Munson, R. (2012). Intervention and reflection: Basic issues in bioethics. The University of Missouri- St. Louis: Wadsworth Centage Learning.
•Jonsen, A. (2007). The God squad and the origins of transplantation ethics and policy. Journal Of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 35(2), 238-240.
•Bernstein, N. (2011, December 20). For illegal immigrant, line is drawn at transplant. New York Times
