Compare Prices | Create Shopping Lists with Price Drop Alerts | Set Coupons, Promo Codes & Sales Alerts | Get Access to Exclusive Deals and Much More... All in One Place | Read all about it here

Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery

Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery

Brand
Springer Nature
Manufacturer
N/A
Part Number
0
GTIN
9781402029707
Condition
New
Product Description

Bioethicists, moral philosophers and social policy analysts have long debated about how we should decide who shall be saved with scarce, lifesaving resources when not all can be saved. It is often claimed that it is fairer to save younger persons and that age is an ethically relevant consideration in such tragic decisions. Medical benefit should be maximized and final selection should aim to minimize the contaminating influence of chance. These claims are challenged by Duff R. Waring in Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery, one of the few books that attempts a sustained defence of random patient selection. This book combines ethics and political philosophy in its novel and strict egalitarian approach to patient selection for transplantable organs. Waring addresses the question of whether we should choose between lives on the basis of fair chances or best outcomes. He argues that final selection criteria should be based on fair chances that equalize opportunity as opposed to best outcomes. His defence of "hardy" egalitarianism aims to show that random selection by lottery can affirm both a common humanity and the equal value of lives. The notion of patient selection by lottery has not fared well in bioethics and has been regarded by some as a moral affront. Waring argues that a human selection lottery may be neither as crude nor as ethically anomalous as some have supposed. Indeed, it can reflect a familiar conception of equality as a political and moral ideal. This conception abstracts from many undeniable differences between patients and claims that scarce resources should be allocated on the principled assumption that each of their lives is equally worth saving. The book is also notable for its critiques of some recent utilitarian notions of medical benefit which can have an age-biased impact on elderly patients. Waring then argues against the leading, contemporary age-based approaches to patient selection. He explores the way randomselection by lottery can affirm his egalitarian ethos in cases where eligible transplant candidates have each passed a threshold level of prospective medical benefit that has been set by democratic deliberation. Taming chance with a human lottery is defended as the most lucid means of ensuring equal opportunity. In so doing, Waring argues that we give the principle of equal concern and respect a radical expression: above a noncomparative threshold of medical benefit, each candidate can have an equal claim to life.

Available Colors
Available Sizes
1 Offer Price Range: $84.99 - $84.99
BEST PRICE

Single Product Purchase

$84.99
@ Link.springer.com     BUY Now

Price Comparison

Seller Contact Seller List Price On Sale Shipping Best Promo Final Price Volume Discount Financing Availability Seller's Page
BEST PRICE
1 Product Purchase
@ Link.springer.com
Contact Store Call Store Contact Support
$84.99 $84.99

$84.99
See Site In stock Visit Store

Similar Products

Peirces and Lewiss Theories of Induction

$54.99

Das egoistische Gen

$37.99

Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker (#6)

$5.99

The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys

$129.00

Gedchtnislandschaften in Geschichte und Gegenwart

$29.99

Computergraphik und Bildverarbeitung

$34.99

Fundamental Medical and Engineering Investigations on Protective Artificial Respiration

$169.00

Internationale Logistik in und zwischen unterschiedlichen Weltregionen

$69.99

Current Research and Clinical Management of Melanoma

$259.00

Organizational Burnout

$74.99

Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics

$54.99

National Minorities in Serbian Academia

$129.99

Intimate Partner Violence

$84.99

Politische Einstellungen von Kommunalpolitikern im Vergleich

$74.99

Subaltern Ethics in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Literature

$54.99

Clifford Algebra to Geometric Calculus

$199.99

Einfhrung in die Interpretationstechnik der Objektiven Hermeneutik

$29.99

Neural Computing for Advanced Applications

$39.99

Rtsel Mensch - Expeditionen im Grenzbereich von Philosophie und Hirnforschung

$34.99

Kurze bersichtstabelle Zur Geschichte der Medizin

$54.99

The Orexin/Hypocretin System

$219.99

Schooling for Peaceful Development in Post-Conflict Societies

$79.99

The Healing Garden- Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies by Juliet Blankespoor

$35.00

Stockholding in Europe

$109.99

Keatss Reading / Reading Keats

$169.99

A Flow-of-Funds Perspective on the Financial Crisis Volume II

$109.99

South African Literature after the Truth Commission

$39.99

Changing Families

$54.99

Computational Intelligence

$169.99

Macrophages and Dendritic Cells

$169.99

Electrical Engineering and Control

$329.99

Global Life Cycle Impact Assessments of Material Shifts

$169.99

Mind, Values, and Metaphysics

$84.99

The Working Class in the Labour Market

$54.99

The Internationalization of Banks

$109.99

Investigators: Survival: Animal Armor

$4.46

Rume flexibler Bildung

$49.99

Einheitspreisneuberechnung nach Leistungsnderungen gem VOB/B

$99.99

Fernsehen und Demokratie

$59.99

Kommunikations-Controlling

$64.99