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  title info:
    title: Medical benefit and the human lottery
    sub title: an egalitarian approach to patient selection
  name:
    name part: Waring, Duff William Ramus
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages)
  abstract: 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 random selection by lottery can affi…
  table of contents: Tragic Decisions -- Patient Selection and Medical Utility -- The Comparative Value of Lives -- Medical Utility Judgements and Rights -- Adequate Conscious Life and Age-Related Need -- Fair Innings and Need over a Lifetime -- Levels of Benefit, Utility Scores and the Qaly Debate -- An Egalitarian Ethos -- A Threshold Level of Medical Benefit -- Waiting Lists and Lotteries in Practice -- Common Humanity and Random Selection -- Chance and the Challenge of Living.
  note: by Duff R. Waring.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Based on Ph. D. thesis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Medical ethics
  subject:
    topic: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Medical ethics
  subject:
    topic: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  classification: R724 .W335 2004eb
  classification: 174.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 22
  identifier: 9781402029738 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 140202973X (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781402029707
  identifier: 1402029705 (cased)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: E7B
    record creation date: 050323
    record change date: 20260420211741.2
    record identifier: in00003504029
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng