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The Ethicist: Body Work

Date: December 9, 2001
Author: Randy Cohen
QUOTE: quandary some U.S. physicians face when a patient has received an organ transplant from an executed prisoner in China. To treat such a patient may condone and encourage this practice. But can a physician deny care to a patient in need?

ABSTRACT: Should Doctors ethically require themselves to treat patients who have been organ transplant recipients from prisoners in CHina?

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