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Adam Smith in the Emergency Room
(1985-08)
Annas fears that efforts to control health care costs will erode the
traditional ethic that hospitals have an obligation to provide emergency care
to anyone, regardless of ability to pay. He characterizes emergency ...
When Procedures Limit Rights: From Quinlan to Conroy
(1985-04)
Annas faults the New Jersey Supreme Court for continuing, in its 1985
The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation
(1985-02)
The author describes four general approaches to choosing among
potential candidates for heart and liver transplants: the market approach, the
committee selection process, a lottery scheme, and the "customary" approach ...
The Phoenix Heart: What We Have to Lose
(1985-06)
Annas examines various justifications offered for the experimental
and federally unapproved use of an artificial heart to sustain temporarily the
life of Thomas Creighton at the University of Arizona Medical Center in ...