Imagining and Preparing for the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic : A Justification for Taking Caring Responsibilities into Consideration when Allocating Scarce Resources

Various models have been used to "emplot" our collective experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the epidemiological curve, threshold models, and narrative. Drawing on a threshold model that was designed to frame resource-allocation decisions in clinical care, I offer an ethical justification for taking caring responsibilities into consideration in such decisions during pandemics. My basic argument is that we should prioritize the survival of patients with caring responsibilities for similar reasons we should prioritize the survival of healthcare professionals. More generally, the pandemic reveals the fundamental importance of informal care and affords an opportunity to raise questions of justice relating to it.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Journal of bioethical inquiry - 17(2020), 4 vom: 09. Dez., Seite 773-776

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jordens, Christopher F C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Informal care
Journal Article
Justice
Narrative
Pandemic
Resource allocation
Triage

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Date Completed 01.01.2021

Date Revised 18.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11673-020-10041-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM317369784