Valuing Lives and Allocating Resources: A Defense of the Modified Youngest First Principle of Scarce Resource Distribution
In this paper, I argue that the ‘modified youngest first’ principle provides a morally appropriate criterion for making decisions regarding the distribution of scarce medical resources, and that it is morally preferable to the simple ‘youngest first’ principle. Based on the complete lives system...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2014
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Bioethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 5, Pages: 207-213 |
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allocating scarce resources
B modified youngest first principle B complete lives system B first person value |
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