Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery: An Egalitarian Approach to Patient Selection by Duff R. Waring
Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery: An Egalitarian Approach to Patient Selection by Duff R. Waring
English | 14 Feb. 2005 | ISBN: 1402029705 | 222 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 14 Feb. 2005 | ISBN: 1402029705 | 222 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Bioethicists, moral philosophers and social policy analysts have long debated about how we should decide who shall be saved with scarce, lifesaving resources when not all can be saved. It is often claimed that it is fairer to save younger persons and that age is an ethically relevant consideration in such tragic decisions.