Racism without racists and consequentialist life-maximizing approaches to triaging

Consequentialist life-maximizing approaches to triaging prescribe that everyone ought to have an equal chance of living a typical lifespan, through the saving more life-years (or saving most lives) principle, which emphasizes the youngest-first principle and in some cases a lottery approach, often a...

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Главный автор: Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis (Автор)
Другие авторы: Ewuoso, Cornelius
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: 2022
В: Bioethics
Год: 2022, Том: 36, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 243-251
Индексация IxTheo:NCC Социальная этика
NCH Медицинская этика
Другие ключевые слова:B relational approach to triaging
B racism without racists
B triaging
B Utilitarianism
B anti-Black racism
B life-cycle approaches
B Egalitarianism
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Итог:Consequentialist life-maximizing approaches to triaging prescribe that everyone ought to have an equal chance of living a typical lifespan, through the saving more life-years (or saving most lives) principle, which emphasizes the youngest-first principle and in some cases a lottery approach, often at the expense of the old and the sick. Although this approach has already been criticized by several bioethicists, this article provides a different kind of criticism to the life-cycle viewpoint, one that has not yet been explored at length; namely, we contend that the life-maximizing approach entails a form of racism without racists in its attitude towards Black people. More specifically, we contend that by neglecting the idea that current societies are not post-racial, it privileges White individuals and disadvantages Black people in the triaging process, curtails equal opportunities for Black people, reinforces white normativity, and neglects African culture. We end the article by pointing towards an Afro-communitarian relational triaging approach that does not face the same difficulties as consequentialist life-maximizing approaches do.
ISSN:1467-8519
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13009