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- Title
Rationing, Responsibility and Blameworthiness: An Ethical Evaluation of Responsibility-Sensitive Policies for Healthcare Rationing.
- Authors
Symons, Xavier; Chua, Reginald
- Abstract
Several ethicists have defended the use of responsibility-based criteria in healthcare rationing. Yet in this article we outline two challenges to the implementation of responsibility-based healthcare rationing policies. These two challenges are, namely, that responsibility for past behavior can diminish as an agent changes, and that blame can come apart from responsibility. These challenges suggest that it is more difficult to hold someone responsible for health related actions than proponents of responsibility-sensitive healthcare policies suggest. We close by discussing public health policies that could function as an alternative to contentious, responsibility-sensitive rationing policies.
- Publication
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2021, Vol 31, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1054-6863
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ken.2021.0004