In its strict and most limited sense this refers to the assignment of various kinds of resource human, material, financial for service or use in relation to particular tasks and functions. Ethically and politically the issue is that of fairness in the allocation of resources. There are several contrasting perspectives on this: allocation according to need, according to expected utilisation, and according to merit or desert. While some argue for a single justifying criterion others acknowledge the suitability of each and then seek to rank order or otherwise relate them. The parables of the talents in New Testament Scripture point to considerations of utilisation and/or merit whereas those of the Prodigal Son and of the Good Samaritan suggest other considerations. In contemporary health-care ethics the issue of allocation is seen as a primary example of difficult decision making.
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— Many ethicists argue that we should respect persons when we distribute resources. Yet it is unclear what this means in practice. For some, the idea of respect for persons is synonymous with the idea ...
— Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the 2021 World Day of the Sick, 11 February 2021
— The Holy Father Francis received in audience the members of the Biomedical University Foundation of the Bio-Medico Campus University of Rome, 18 October 2021
— To Participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, 27 September 2021
— Today's medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal. What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of "health care services" for the sake of the patient's subjective well-being. Against this trend, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen call for practitioners to recover what they call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist the various political, institutional, and cultural forces that constantly push practitioners and patients into thinking of their relationship in terms of economic exchange. Curlin and Tollefsen offer an accessible account of the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed. Their investigation, drawing on the scholarship of Leon Kass, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Finnis, leads them to explore the nature of medicine as a practice, health as the end of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, the rule of double effect in medical practice, and a number of clinical ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. In the final chapter, the authors take up debates about conscience in medicine, arguing that rather than pretending to not know what is good for patients, physicians should contend conscientiously for the patient's health and, in so doing, contend conscientiously for good medicine. The Way of Medicine is an intellectually serious yet accessible exploration of medical practice written for medical students, health care professionals, and students and scholars of bioethics and medical ethics.
— Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Rationing, Responsibility and Blameworthiness: An Ethical Evaluation of Responsibility-Sensitive Policies for Healthcare Rationing Xavier Symons , Reginald Chua Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 31, Number 1, March 2021 pp. 53-76 10.1353/ken.2021.0004 Article View Citation Related Content Additional Information Purchase/rental options available: Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP Abstract ABSTRACT: Several ethicists have defended the use of responsibility-based criteria in healthcare rationing. Yet in this article we outline two challenges to the implementation of responsibility-based healthcare rationing policies. These two challenges are, namely, that responsibility for past behavior can diminish as an agent changes, and that blame can come apart from responsibility. These challenges suggest that it is more difficult to hold someone responsible for health related actions than proponents of responsibility-sensitive healthcare policies suggest. We close by discussing public health policies that could function as an alternative to contentious, responsibility-sensitive rationing policies. collapse You are not currently authenticated. If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution or have your own login and password to Project MUSE Authenticate
— led by Dr. Xavier Symons (Sydney) and Dr. Rob Allore, SJ (Vancouver)
— One prominent view in recent literature on resource allocation is Persad, Emanuel and Wertheimer's complete lives framework for the rationing of lifesaving healthcare interventions (CLF). CLF states that we should prioritise the needs of individuals who have had less opportunity to experience the ev …
In its strict and most limited sense this refers to the assignment of various kinds of resource human, material, financial for service or use in relation to particular tasks and functions. Ethically and politically the issue is that of fairness in the allocation of resources. There are several contrasting perspectives on this: allocation according to need, according to expected utilisation, and according to merit or desert. While some argue for a single justifying criterion others acknowledge the suitability of each and then seek to rank order or otherwise relate them. The parables of the talents in New Testament Scripture point to considerations of utilisation and/or merit whereas those of the Prodigal Son and of the Good Samaritan suggest other considerations. In contemporary health-care ethics the issue of allocation is seen as a primary example of difficult decision making.