Ladders and stairs: how the intervention ladder focuses blame on individuals and obscures systemic failings and interventions

Introduced in 2007 by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the intervention ladder has become an influential tool in bioethics and public health policy for weighing the justification for interventions and for weighing considerations of intrusiveness and proportionality. However, while such considerati...

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Main Author: Paetkau, Tyler (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2024
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 50, Issue: 10, Pages: 684-689
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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