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Different approach to medical decision-making in difficult circumstances: Kittay's Ethics of Care.
Butchart, Liam; Krumenacker, Kristin; Baig, Aymen.
  • Butchart L; Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care & Bioethics, Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA liam.butchart@stonybrookmedicine.edu.
  • Krumenacker K; Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
  • Baig A; Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
J Med Ethics ; 2021 Aug 23.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2253373
ABSTRACT
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated advances in bioethical approaches to medical decision-making. This paper develops an alternative method for rationing care during periods of resource scarcity. Typical approaches to triaging rely on utilitarian calculations; however, this approach introduces a problematic antihumanist sentiment, inviting the proposition of alternative schemata. As such, we suggest a feminist approach to medical decision-making, founded in and expanding upon the framework of Eva Kittay's Ethics of Care. We suggest that this new structure addresses the issue of medical decision-making during times of resource scarcity just as well as pure utilitarian approaches while better attending to their significant theoretical concerns, forming a coherent alternative to the current bioethical consensus.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Language: English Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: Medethics-2021-107521