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THE DISTRIBUTION OF LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL RESOURCES: EQUALITY, LIFE EXPECTANCY, AND CHOICE BEHIND THE VEIL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2002

Mark S. Stein
Mark S. Stein
Affiliation:
Political Science, Yale University
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In this essay, I survey egalitarian and utilitarian approaches to the distribution of scarce life-saving medical resources. In my view, the major criterion for the distribution of scarce life-saving medical resources (hereinafter sometimes the “distribution of life”) should be life expectancy: we should distribute life so as to maximize life-years. In Section II, I discuss the life-year maximization approach and situate it within utilitarian theory.

Type
Research Article
Information
Social Philosophy and Policy , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , July 2002 , pp. 212 - 245
Copyright
© 2002 Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation

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