Setting health-care priorities : what ethical theories tell us / Torbjörn Tännsjö.
2019
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Title
Setting health-care priorities : what ethical theories tell us / Torbjörn Tännsjö.
Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Description
1 online resource
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
Part I
Utilitarianism
The meaximin/leximin theory
Egalitarianism
Prioritarianism
Some controversial implications of the three theories
Population ethics
Utilitarianism: pure or with a prioritarian amendment?
Part II
Ideal and nonideal theory
Triage in situations of mass casualty
The maximin/leximin theory: in real life
Utilitarianism: in real life
Conclusion
References
Index.
Part I
Utilitarianism
The meaximin/leximin theory
Egalitarianism
Prioritarianism
Some controversial implications of the three theories
Population ethics
Utilitarianism: pure or with a prioritarian amendment?
Part II
Ideal and nonideal theory
Triage in situations of mass casualty
The maximin/leximin theory: in real life
Utilitarianism: in real life
Conclusion
References
Index.
Summary
Tannsjo here approaches the question of how to allocate limited health-care resources from a philosophical perspective. He balanaces theoretical treatments of distributive ethics with real-world examples of how health-care is administered around the world today, arguing for the controversial position that we ought to direct more resources to the care and cure of people suffering from mental illness, and less to the marginal life extension of elderly patients.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 2, 2019)
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Setting healthcare priorities
Setting health care priorities
Setting health care priorities
Language
English
ISBN
9780190946913 (electronic book)
0190946911 (electronic book)
9780190946890 (electronic book)
019094689X (electronic book)
9780190946883
0190946881
0190946911 (electronic book)
9780190946890 (electronic book)
019094689X (electronic book)
9780190946883
0190946881
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