Rationing, Responsibility and Blameworthiness: An Ethical Evaluation of Responsibility-Sensitive Policies for Healthcare Rationing

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چکیده

Several ethicists have defended the use of responsibility-based criteria in healthcare rationing. Yet this article we outline two challenges to implementation rationing policies. These are, namely, that responsibility for past behavior can diminish as an agent changes, and blame come apart from responsibility. suggest it is more difficult hold someone responsible health related actions than proponents responsibility-sensitive policies suggest. We close by discussing public could function alternative contentious,

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1054-6863', '1086-3249']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.2021.0004