Allocating Scarce Medical Resources by Worth: Shaw’s Critique in The Doctor’s Dilemma
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Terrance C. McConnell, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: When the demand for a medical resource exceeds the supply, we have a problem of scarcity. There are many instantiations of this issue. The time of health care providers during an emergency, organs for transplantation, a bed in an intensive care unit, and a slot in a research protocol can all be scarce resources. Interest in this issue has been renewed because of recent concerns about a pandemic and shortages of vaccines. In each of these cases there is a problem of distributive justice. If the resource is lifesaving, then the question is especially poignant: Who shall be saved when not all can be?
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources by Worth: Shaw’s Critique in The Doctor’s Dilemma
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Additional Information
- Publication
- The Journal of Value Inquiry 42(1) (2008), pp. 91-103
- Language: English
- Date: 2008
- Keywords
- medical resources, The Doctor's Dilemma, Bernard Shaw