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Organ transplantation is a therapy that is clearly beneficial to patients: It allows many people to continue living when they had been condemned to death and many others to return to a satisfying personal, family, and professional life when they had been very limited by their disease. However, since transplantation involves the removal of organs from deceased or living persons for transplantation into other people–who are seriously ill—it raises many questions that have been extensively studied. The research we conducted with liver transplant recipients also raises new questions concerning issues of access, particularly access to employment, housing, insurance and loans, notably in the post-secondary phase. These questions relate to social inequalities in healthcare as well as political philosophy. While these transplant patients are no longer sick, they are not cured either, and are often unable to return to work, whether it is related to their state of health, to the constraints of their treatment, or to the presuppositions of employers. For this reason, an important part of our research, conducted between 2015 and 2017 with 15 liver transplant recipients at the Beaujon Hospital, focused on these questions.