Faces of Austerity

Virtue and austerity

Virtue ethics is often proposed as a third way in health-care ethics, that while consequentialism and deontology focus on action guidelines, virtue focuses on character; all three aim to help agents discern morally right action although virtue seems to have least to contribute to political issues, such as austerity. I claim: (1) This is a bad way to characterize virtue ethics. The 20th century ...

Greek Nursing under Austerity

Introduction: In the past year increasing concern has been expressed on the financial austerity measures imposed on Greece and its effect on public hospital patient care. The influence of this hardship on nursing delivery care is evident as even prior to this poor staff patient ratios caused shortcuts in care practice in order to save staff time. Aim: The aim of this discussion paper is to crit...

Austerity and the cadaver.

The rresence of increasing numbers of allied health slUdents at colleges and universities across the nation is having a great effecl on curriculum development, distribution of resources, and use of rhysical facilities Expanded slUdel1l enrollment, coupled with decreased funding for higher education, leads to concern that valuable expel'iences necessary for adequate training of allied health slU...

Unpleasant Supply - Side Arithmetics of Fiscal Austerity

1. A general theory of austerity

This chapter is highly ambitious in scope. It will first look at whether, from a strictly macroeconomic point of view, fiscal austerity was necessary. The conclusions are stark: for the world as a whole austerity could have been easily avoided. In a few Eurozone countries some austerity was inevitable, but unemployment at the levels we have actually seen could almost certainly have been avoided...