Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery: An Egalitarian Approach to Patient Selection

by Duff R. Waring

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402029705
• ISBN13: 9781402029707
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"