Contributors to the debate on ethical rationing bring with them assumptions about the proper role of moral theories in practical discourse, which seem reasonable, realistic and pragmatic. These assumptions function to define the remit of bioethical discourse and to determine conceptions of proper methodology and causal reasoning in the area. However well intentioned, the desire to be realistic in this sense may lead us to judge the adequacy of a theory precisely with reference to its ability to deliver apparently determinate answers to questions that strike most practitioners and patients as morally arbitrary. By providing ethical solutions that work given the world as it is, work in clinical ethics may serve to endorse or protect from scru...
Critical thinking texts typically treat ethical reasoning as being in principle no different from no...
ABSTRACT. Terrence Ackerman has suggested that we ought to view general bioethical principles as gen...
The United Kingdom’s General Medical Council investigation of Dr. Michael Munro raises concerns abou...
Contributors to the debate on ethical rationing bring with them assumptions about the proper role of...
Contributors to the debate on ethical rationing bring with them assumptions about the proper role of...
Difficulties in medical ethics are traditionally discussed in relation to problem arising in clinica...
Difficulties in medical ethics are traditionally discussed in relation to problem arising in clinica...
It follows from resource scarcity that some form of healthcare rationing is unavoidable. This implie...
Background Rationing and allocation decisions at the clinical level – bedside rationing – entail com...
Suppose ethical theories guide us to do what is the most good and the most right but conflicts aris...
It is common to think of medical and ethical modes of thought as different in kind. In such terms, s...
This thesis considers how we should allocate scarce, lifesaving healthcare interventions among perso...
How may we try to answer the central question of ethics, the question how one should live? Understoo...
How should we think of the preferences of citizens? Whereas self-optimal policy is relatively straig...
No abstractThe question as to whether bioethics can be seen as resistance to norms does not imply an...
Critical thinking texts typically treat ethical reasoning as being in principle no different from no...
ABSTRACT. Terrence Ackerman has suggested that we ought to view general bioethical principles as gen...
The United Kingdom’s General Medical Council investigation of Dr. Michael Munro raises concerns abou...
Contributors to the debate on ethical rationing bring with them assumptions about the proper role of...
Contributors to the debate on ethical rationing bring with them assumptions about the proper role of...
Difficulties in medical ethics are traditionally discussed in relation to problem arising in clinica...
Difficulties in medical ethics are traditionally discussed in relation to problem arising in clinica...
It follows from resource scarcity that some form of healthcare rationing is unavoidable. This implie...
Background Rationing and allocation decisions at the clinical level – bedside rationing – entail com...
Suppose ethical theories guide us to do what is the most good and the most right but conflicts aris...
It is common to think of medical and ethical modes of thought as different in kind. In such terms, s...
This thesis considers how we should allocate scarce, lifesaving healthcare interventions among perso...
How may we try to answer the central question of ethics, the question how one should live? Understoo...
How should we think of the preferences of citizens? Whereas self-optimal policy is relatively straig...
No abstractThe question as to whether bioethics can be seen as resistance to norms does not imply an...
Critical thinking texts typically treat ethical reasoning as being in principle no different from no...
ABSTRACT. Terrence Ackerman has suggested that we ought to view general bioethical principles as gen...
The United Kingdom’s General Medical Council investigation of Dr. Michael Munro raises concerns abou...