Ruth Tallman
Biographic Data
| ID | 8676149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Tallman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Tallman |
| SIGNATURE | TALLMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hillsborough Community College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Promoting racial equity in Covid-19 resource allocation
Due to COVID-19’s strain on health systems across the globe, triage protocols determine how to allocate scarce medical resources with the worthy goal of maximising the number of lives saved. However, due to racial biases and long-standing health inequities, the common method of ranking patients based on impersonal numeric representations of their morbidity is associated with disproportionately pronounced racial disparities. In response, policymak…
Self-Governed Agency
In this paper, I consider Michael Bratman's account of self-governed agency as a lens through which to understand and respond better to patient noncompliance. I argue that, to the extent we ought to understand patients as ordinary people in their capacity to evaluate, choose, and act, we ought to accept that noncompliance could be a rational decision deserving of respect. Understanding noncompliance as rational can benefit the doctor-patient rela…
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Self-Governed Agency
In this paper, I consider Michael Bratman's account of self-governed agency as a lens through which to understand and respond better to patient noncompliance. I argue that, to the extent we ought to understand patients as ordinary people in their capacity to evaluate, choose, and act, we ought to accept that noncompliance could be a rational decision deserving of respect. Understanding noncompliance as rational can benefit the doctor-patient rela…
Promoting racial equity in Covid-19 resource allocation
Due to COVID-19’s strain on health systems across the globe, triage protocols determine how to allocate scarce medical resources with the worthy goal of maximising the number of lives saved. However, due to racial biases and long-standing health inequities, the common method of ranking patients based on impersonal numeric representations of their morbidity is associated with disproportionately pronounced racial disparities. In response, policymak…
Psychology (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Disaster Response and Management (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Emergency and Acute Care Studies (1 work) · Engineering (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Health care (1 work) · Health equity (1 work) · Healthcare cost, quality, practices (1 work)