Table 1.

Summary of 7 major relata for professional responsibility in organ transplantation

Subject (in different roles)	Object (seen as morally relevant)	Instance (norm-proofing)	Moral-relevant standard	Temporal direction	Consequences	Time frame
Physician	Patient (recipient)	Law/ethos	Beneficence	Retrospective_negative	Professional sanctions?	Limited to individual treatment until cure or death
				Prospective_positive	Recognition by patient
	Collective of recipients		Justice/efficiency?	Retrospective_negative	Legal sanctions	Theoretically unlimited (as long as there are not enough donor organs)
				Prospective_positive	Power as gate keeper