Cookson, Richard and Dolan, Paul 
ORCID: 0009-0007-9351-1510
(2000)
Principles of justice in health care rationing.
Journal of Medical Ethics, 26 (5).
pp. 323-329.
ISSN 0306-6800
Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts three different substantive (as opposed to procedural) principles of justice for making health care priority-setting or “rationing” decisions: need principles, maximising principles and egalitarian principles. The principles are compared by tracing out their implications for a hypothetical rationing decision involving four identified patients. This decision has been the subject of an empirical study of public opinion based on small-group discussions, which found that the public seem to support a pluralistic combination of all three kinds of rationing principle. In conclusion, it is suggested that there is room for further work by philosophers and others on the development of a coherent and pluralistic theory of health care rationing which accords with public opinions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://jme.bmj.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2000 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Institute of Medical Ethics. |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2011 16:39 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2025 21:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33027 |
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