Contractualist age rationing under outbreak circumstances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21504635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lasse Nielsen (0000-0003-3093-4448, Philosophy, Department for the Study of Culture University of Southern Denmark Odense Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 229-236 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bioethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-9702 • E-ISSN: 1467-8519 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/bioe.12822 |
| PMID | 33068025 |
| OpenAlex | W3093010401 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Age rationing is a central issue in the health care priority‐setting literature, but it has become ever more salient in the light of the Covid‐19 outbreak, where health authorities in several countries have given higher priority to younger over older patients. But how is age rationing different under outbreak circumstances than under normal circumstances, and what does this difference imply for ethical theories? This is the topic of this paper. The paper argues that outbreaks such as that of Covid‐19 involve special circumstances that change how age should influence our prioritization decisions, and that while this shift in circumstances poses a problem for consequentialist views such as utilitarianism and age‐weighted consequentialism, contractualism is better equipped to cope with it. The paper then offers a contractualist prudential account of age rationing under outbreak circumstances
Actuarial science · Consequentialism · Contractualism · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Health care rationing · Law and economics · Market economy · Outbreak · Political science · Public economics · Rationing · Utilitarianism · Welfare · Ethics in medical practice · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Law · Medicine · Virology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |