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What The Harm Principle Says About Vaccination And Healthcare Rationing, Christopher Robertson Jun 2022

What The Harm Principle Says About Vaccination And Healthcare Rationing, Christopher Robertson

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Clinical ethicists hold near consensus on the view that healthcare should be provided regardless of patients’ past behaviors. In classic cases, the consensus can be explained by two key rationales—a lack of acute scarcity and the intractability of the facts around those behaviors, which make discrimination on past behavior gratuitous and infeasible to do fairly. Healthcare providers have a duty to help those who can be helped. In contrast, the COVID-19 pandemic suggests the possible recurrence of a very different situation, where a foreseeable acute shortage of healthcare resources means that some cannot be helped. And that shortage is exacerbated …


Madeira Serves As Legal Commentator In Netflix’S “Our Father”, James Owsley Boyd May 2022

Madeira Serves As Legal Commentator In Netflix’S “Our Father”, James Owsley Boyd

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