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The organizers of this meeting showed great wisdom in choosing the topic of “Ethics, Justice, and Commerce in Organ Replacement Therapy.” Justice in the allocation of scarce health resources is destined to become the dominant medical ethical issue of the decade of the 1990s. I am a member of the Board of Governors of the Regional Transplant Consortium for Washington, D.C., and a member of the committee that has the awesome task of allocating organs as they become available for transplantation. The problems we encounter I am sure are similar to yours.
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Veatch, R.M. (1991). Theories of Medical Ethics: The Professional Model Compared with the Societal Model. In: Land, W., Dossetor, J.B. (eds) Organ Replacement Therapy: Ethics, Justice Commerce. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76444-8_1
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