David G Kirchhoffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 7828561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David G Kirchhoffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David G |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirchhoffer |
| SIGNATURE | KIRCHHOFFER D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland Bioethics Centre Australian Catholic University Brisbane Queensland Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2902-2513 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Healthcare Resource Allocation and Environmental Sustainability
Our healthcare systems are responsible for delivering essential, often life-saving care to patients within the society that they serve. It has long been recognised that healthcare systems, as basic social institutions, have duties of health and social justice.1 Healthcare systems should help ensure people are free of preventable morbidity and mortality2 and able to function normally3 such that they can achieve either a normal lifespan of decent q…
In hospital resource allocation conflicts between health goods and environmental goods, a relational, co‐benefits frame, rather than a dualistic, competing goods frame, is key
Health systems contribute to the environmental crisis. Yet, addressing this problem seems to generate a resource allocation dilemma for hospitals: investing in healthcare delivery seems to mean sacrificing environmental goods, and vice versa. We question this zero‐sum thinking. After presenting the benefits of investing in the two seemingly competing goods—environmental goods and health goods—we propose that the apparent dilemma arises due to a t…
Solidarity and its decoloniality in global health ethics
Solidarity is one of the emerging values in global health ethics, and a few pieces of bioethics literature link it to decoloniality. However, conceptions of solidarity in global health ethics are influenced primarily by Western perspectives, thus suggesting the decolonial needs to include non-Western perspectives. This article explores a decolonial interpretation of solidarity to enrich our understanding of solidarity. It employs a palaver approa…
Dignity, conscience and religious pluralism in healthcare
Religious pluralism in healthcare means that conflicts regarding appropriate treatment can occur because of convictions of patients and healthcare workers alike. This contribution argues for a presumption in favour of respect for religious belief on the basis that such convictions are judgements of conscience, and respect for conscience is core to what it means to respect human dignity. The human person is a subject in relation to all that is. Hu…
Public reasoning about voluntary assisted dying
The use of voluntary assisted dying as an end‐of‐life option has stimulated concerns and debates over the past decades. Although public attitudes towards voluntary assisted dying (including euthanasia and physician‐assisted suicide) are well researched, there has been relatively little study of the different reasons, normative reasoning and rhetorical strategies that people invoke in supporting or contesting voluntary assisted dying in everyday l…
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Public reasoning about voluntary assisted dying
The use of voluntary assisted dying as an end‐of‐life option has stimulated concerns and debates over the past decades. Although public attitudes towards voluntary assisted dying (including euthanasia and physician‐assisted suicide) are well researched, there has been relatively little study of the different reasons, normative reasoning and rhetorical strategies that people invoke in supporting or contesting voluntary assisted dying in everyday l…
Dignity, conscience and religious pluralism in healthcare
Religious pluralism in healthcare means that conflicts regarding appropriate treatment can occur because of convictions of patients and healthcare workers alike. This contribution argues for a presumption in favour of respect for religious belief on the basis that such convictions are judgements of conscience, and respect for conscience is core to what it means to respect human dignity. The human person is a subject in relation to all that is. Hu…
Healthcare Resource Allocation and Environmental Sustainability
Our healthcare systems are responsible for delivering essential, often life-saving care to patients within the society that they serve. It has long been recognised that healthcare systems, as basic social institutions, have duties of health and social justice.1 Healthcare systems should help ensure people are free of preventable morbidity and mortality2 and able to function normally3 such that they can achieve either a normal lifespan of decent q…
In hospital resource allocation conflicts between health goods and environmental goods, a relational, co‐benefits frame, rather than a dualistic, competing goods frame, is key
Health systems contribute to the environmental crisis. Yet, addressing this problem seems to generate a resource allocation dilemma for hospitals: investing in healthcare delivery seems to mean sacrificing environmental goods, and vice versa. We question this zero‐sum thinking. After presenting the benefits of investing in the two seemingly competing goods—environmental goods and health goods—we propose that the apparent dilemma arises due to a t…
Solidarity and its decoloniality in global health ethics
Solidarity is one of the emerging values in global health ethics, and a few pieces of bioethics literature link it to decoloniality. However, conceptions of solidarity in global health ethics are influenced primarily by Western perspectives, thus suggesting the decolonial needs to include non-Western perspectives. This article explores a decolonial interpretation of solidarity to enrich our understanding of solidarity. It employs a palaver approa…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethics in medical practice (2 works) · Health and Conflict Studies (2 works) · Health care (2 works)