Case Study:
Transplant case regarding Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle (former baseball player) received a liver transplant in 1995 due to his liver failing from cirrhosis and hepatitis. He received the transplant after two days when there is a waiting list of 40,000 people on a list that generally takes 130 days. He received the liver with only having a 60% chance of living vs. average people having about a 75% chance. People speculated that he was favored becase he was famous.
Q1. What are the ethical and/or bio-ethical issues that may apply to this case?
Q2. What are the values and rules influencing ethical conflict?
Q3. What are the possible alternatives for the case?
Q4. If an ethics committee reviewed the case, what value would it have provided and considerations might it have considered in making the decision to proceed with the transplant?
Your answer must be typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format.