Science and Values
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Rotman Dialogue with James Wilson: Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy
Rotman Dialogue with James Wilson: Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy
Making wise ethical choices is difficult. So, a crucial task of ethical theory is to make such decision-making easier, but without falsifying, or over-simplifying the choices to be made. The difficult question is what counts as good simplification, and what counts as over-simplification. This Rotman Dialogue discusses the theory and practice of making ethical public [...]
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James Wilson: What makes a health system good? From cost-effectiveness analysis to ethical optimisation in health systems
James Wilson: What makes a health system good? From cost-effectiveness analysis to ethical optimisation in health systems
Abstract Fair allocation of scarce healthcare resources has been much studied within philosophy and bioethics, but analysis has focused on a narrow range of cases. The Covid-19 pandemic provided significant new challenges, making powerfully visible the extent to which health systems can be fragile, and how scarcities within crucial elements of interlinked care pathways [...]