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  • 8 - Disabled Bodies and Good Organs

  • from Part III - Disability in the Clinical Setting
  • Edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts, Carmel Shachar, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts, Anita Silvers, San Francisco State University, Michael Ashley Stein, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
    Published online:
    08 April 2020
    Print publication:
    23 April 2020, pp 104-116

  • Summary

    Asymmetry between the supply of and demand for transplantable organs necessitates rationing and should ideally serve as a spur to ethical reflection and policy innovation. Transplantation policies can be animated by various principles, such as maximizing total benefits and fairness. Implicitly, these principles demand that we interrogate our beliefs about the meaning of and appropriate role for disability in the face of scarce resources. How we conceive of disabilities – whether as a “mere difference” or a “bad difference” – influences our thinking about both donation and allocation of organs and should, therefore, be made explicit.