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Titre :	The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities. (2003)
Auteurs :	Jan-Abel OLSEN ; Paul DOLAN ; Paul MENZEL ; Jeff RICHARDSON ; Hero. Health Economics Research programme. University of Oslo. Oslo. NOR
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Social science and medicine (vol. 57, n° 7, 2003)
Pagination :	1163-1172
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Ethique ; Homme ; Thérapeutique ; Pronostic ; Etiologie
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS MIhcR0xx. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This paper discusses the moral relevance of accounting for various personal characteristics when prioritising between groups of patients. After a review of the results from empirical studies, we discuss the ethical reasons which might explain-and justify the views expressed in these studies. The paper develops a general framework based upon the causes of ill health and the consequences of treatment. It then turns to the question of the extent to which a personal characteristic-and the eventual underlying ethical justification of its relevance-could have any relationships to these causes and consequences. We attempt to disentangle those characteristics that may reflect a potentially relevant justification from those which violate widely accepted principles of social justice.

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