• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Principles of justice in health care rationing
  • Beteiligte: Cookson, Richard [Verfasser:in]; Dolan, Paul [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: 2000
  • Erschienen in: Journal of medical ethics ; 26(2000), 5, Seite 323-329
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1136/jme.26.5.323
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  • Beschreibung: This paper compares and contrasts three different substantive (as opposed to procedural) principles of justice for making health care priority-setting or “rationing” decisions: need principles, maximising principles and egalitarian principles. The principles are compared by tracing out their implications for a hypothetical rationing decision involving four identified patients. This decision has been the subject of an empirical study of public opinion based on small-group discussions, which found that the public seem to support a pluralistic combination of all three kinds of rationing principle. In conclusion, it is suggested that there is room for further work by philosophers and others on the development of a coherent and pluralistic theory of health care rationing which accords with public opinions.
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