Abstract
It is a common attitude in the context of organ transplantation to discuss upon 'allocation' of donated organs among recipients and its justice. And it is illuminating to analyze the process of the allocation and to identify several phases in it. But there is a doubt clinging in my mind whether the whole pool of donated organs is something from which organs are socially to be distributed. Since we have a variety of conceptions of justice, it might be possible to see the problem of organ allocation against the background of a different sort of justice other than social or distributive. Then we will find donors rather than recipients at the center of this allocative prosess whose judgements are rightly to determine the outcome.
