| 书目名称 | Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery |
| 副标题 | An Egalitarian Appro |
| 编辑 | Duff R. Waring |
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| 概述 | One of the few books that attempts a sustained defence of random patient selection.Combines ethics and political philosophy in its novel and strict egalitarian approach to patient selection for transp |
| 丛书名称 | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine |
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| 描述 | .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. Medical benefit should be maximized and final selection should aim to minimize the contaminating influence of chance. These claims are challenged by Duff R. Waring in .Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery., one of the few books that attempts a sustained defence of random patient selection. ..This book combines ethics and political philosophy in its novel and strict egalitarian approach to patient selection for transplantable organs. Waring addresses the question of whether we should choose between lives on the basis of fair chances or best outcomes. He argues that final selection criteria should be based on fair chances that equalize opportunity as opposed to best outcomes. His defence of "hardy" egalitarianism aims to show that random selection by lottery can affirm both a common humanity and the equal value of lives. The notion of patient selection by lottery |
| 出版日期 | Book 2004 |
| 关键词 | bioethics; ethics; Ethos; morality; philosophy; political philosophy |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2973-8 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-6756-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-2973-8Series ISSN 1567-8008 Series E-ISSN 2351-955X |
| issn_series | 1567-8008 |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004 |
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