Who do we treat when resources are scarce?
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2010
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In a health service with limited resources we must make decisions about who to treat ?rst. In this paper I develop a version of the restoration argument according to which those whose need for resources is a consequence of their voluntary choices should receive lower priority when it comes to health care. I then consider three possible problems for this argument based on those that have been raised against other theories of this type: that we don’t know in a particular case that the illness is self-in?icted, that it seems that all illness is self-in?icted in the sense used in my argument, and ?nally that this type of approach incorporates an unacceptable moralising element if it is to avoid giving those like ?re-?ghters a lower priority for treatment. I argue that the position outlined here has the resources to respond to each of these objections. |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
Fonte |
Walker , T 2010 , ' Who do we treat when resources are scarce? ' Journal of Applied Philosophy , vol 27 , no. 2 , pp. 200-211 . DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5930.2010.00486.x |
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article |