utilitarianism application to allocation of medical resources with assesment and christian approach
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- finite medical resources
- Teleological
- treat younger and fitter patients
- Survival of the fittest = Animal characteristic
- judge happiness by quantity even if leads to inority group being treated unfairly?
- 15% of britain is over 65. elderly could get ignored to achieve greatest happiness for greatest number
- Christians would find this unacceptable as they are taught to care for vulnerable
- 15% of britain is over 65. elderly could get ignored to achieve greatest happiness for greatest number
- Impossible to predict conequences
- treated person could get run over when they leave hospital
- waste valuable resources
- treated person could get run over when they leave hospital
- not just consequences, what about love, charity and care?
- however, althogugh that is ideal, not practical as resources are finite
- treat younger and fitter patients
- Mill appreciates Golden Rule and Love your neighbour
- Patients treated fair and equal
- no discrimmination between patients
- principle of utility; max pleasure and min pain
- e.g. 10 hip replacements over 1 heart transplant. certainty and richness also increases
- Bentham, everyone is to count for one
- Interests/ happiness of everyone taken into account
- hedonic calculus
- Duration; life style
- extent; number of dependants
- Intensity; severity of pain if untreated
- Certainty; risk factors, chance of going wrong
- Purity; how much pain could be experienced
- Richness; life rich in pleasure
- Remoteness; closeness to situaion
- Qualitative
- intellectual career
- god loves us impartially irrespective of our faults
- choices should be made freely
- wrong if doctor forced to allocate medical resources tp particular patient/department
- QALY's Quality Adjusted Life Years calculates relative benefits of different treatments
- how many good quality years patient might have after treatment
- hedonic calculus is ideal
- works as its practical and fair. enables tough decisions to be made
- all humans made in image of god
- christians concerend patients are thought of as a financial liability
- Bentham, everyone is to count for one
- Interests/ happiness of everyone taken into account
- jesus was healer of all
- parable of sheep illustares importance of taking in those who are in need
- showing love for others and god
- old testament law= defending rights for poor and vulnerable
- John Wyatt gives modern christian approach
- fairness and equality
- realistic and sensible expectations of community
- "we need a system of healthcare which doesnt have a powerful with an influential voice or economic muscle to slilence needs of vulnerable"
- Teleological
- treated person could get run over when they leave hospital
- waste valuable resources
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