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Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

Kenneth W. Goodman
Kenneth W. Goodman
Affiliation:
Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., is Director of the bioethics program at the University of Miami and serves on a number of South Florida ethics committees. He recently edited Ethics, Computing, and Medicine: Informatics and the Transformation of Health Care (Cambridge University Press).
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Abstract

To ask whether and to what extent there is an obligation to treat illegal immigrants implies—just in the asking—that any duty to treat an illegal resident is different from or lesser than the duty to treat a citizen. What could be the reason for thinking that morality affords fewer benefits or rights to illegal residents?

Type
ETHICS COMMITTEES AT WORK
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 133 - 135
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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