Asked by Anastasia Oxler on Sep 28, 2024
Appel argued that death row inmates should be allowed to be candidates for kidney transplants because of which of the following?
A) If a death row inmate were wrongly convicted, denying him a transplant would result in the irreversible suffering of an innocent person.
B) It would be wrong for a medical decision to lower a death row inmate's quality of life while he is waiting for execution.
C) A death row inmate's life expectancy should not be considered relevant to a transplant decision.
D) all of these choices
Death Row Inmates
Prisoners who have been sentenced to death for committing particularly serious crimes.
Kidney Transplants
A medical procedure in which a healthy kidney from a donor is transplanted into a person with end-stage renal disease.
- Investigate the moral implications associated with administering healthcare to incarcerated individuals and how economic elements influence medical judgments.
Learning Objectives
- Investigate the moral implications associated with administering healthcare to incarcerated individuals and how economic elements influence medical judgments.