Reflection on the Elderly Discrimination in the Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources from the Age Restriction Phenomenon in ICU of a Certain Country / 中国医学伦理学

In March 2020, the outflow of age limited videos from ICU in Spain inspired us to rethink whether there is age discrimination in the allocation of scarce medical resources. This paper frist reflected on the problem of age discrimination caused by this phenomenon from four moral intuitions: the sacred view of life, the quality of life and values, public health ethics and Chinese culture, and then examined whether it is illegal from the legal level, finally pointed out the negative impact on the society, and put forward that taking age as the standard for the allocation of scarce medical resources is not suitable for China’s national conditions.

Genetic justice and the health care rights of rare disease / 中国医学伦理学

Health care is a hot issue.Health care insurance started to cover rare disease since 2000 in Taiwan,which made it one of the few countries following USA,EU and Japan to have such policy and law.This development shows the humanistic side of Taiwan health care policy,but the problem of fair medical resources allocation needs further analysis.Norman Daniels's development of the justice theory of John Rawls is the most comprehensive and reasonable one in the field of health care.This paper starts with Daniels analysis of the justice of genetic intervention and health care and explores the difference between Daniels and Confucain views on these two areas.Finally it tries to argue how the two could contribute to the solution of some of the problems in the field.