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Medical benefit and the human lottery : an egalitarian approach to patient selection / by Duff R. Waring.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 22.Publisher: Dordrecht ; [Great Britain] : Springer, 2004Description: viii, 220 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1402029705
  • 9781402029707
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.2 22
Contents:
Ch. 1. Tragic decisions -- Ch. 2. Patient selection and medical utility -- Ch. 3. The comparative values of lives -- Ch. 4. Medical utility judgements and rights -- Ch. 5. Adequate conscious life and age-related need -- Ch. 6. Fair innings and need over a lifetime -- Ch. 7. Levels of benefit, utility scores and the QALY debate -- Ch. 8. An egalitarian ethos -- Ch. 9. A threshold level of medical benefit -- Ch. 10. Waiting lists and lotteries in practice -- Ch. 11. Common humanity and random selection -- Ch. 12. Chance and the challenge of living.
Dissertation note: Based on Ph.D. thesis. Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Based on Ph.D. thesis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Tragic decisions -- Ch. 2. Patient selection and medical utility -- Ch. 3. The comparative values of lives -- Ch. 4. Medical utility judgements and rights -- Ch. 5. Adequate conscious life and age-related need -- Ch. 6. Fair innings and need over a lifetime -- Ch. 7. Levels of benefit, utility scores and the QALY debate -- Ch. 8. An egalitarian ethos -- Ch. 9. A threshold level of medical benefit -- Ch. 10. Waiting lists and lotteries in practice -- Ch. 11. Common humanity and random selection -- Ch. 12. Chance and the challenge of living.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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