12236. MORAL REQUIREMENTS FOR AUTONOMY AND THE CASE OF BARNEY CLARK AND THE ARTIFICIAL HEART. Are the more requirements of respecting the autonomy of all persons universally applicable in all cultures, or are they restricted to the culture(s) in which they heave been explicitly adopted? Through an analysis of a medical ethics case concerning Barney Clark, the first patient to have an artificial heart transplanted "and live to tell about it," this paper argues that these moral requirements are universally applicable. 5 pages, 7 footnotes, 2 bibliographic sources.