Justice and Patients' Rights NOT FINISHED Flashcards
1
Q
What is the classic definition of ethics?
What is the definition as applied to medicine?
A
How should we live?
How should we treat patients
How should we allocate our resources?
Who get what?
2
Q
What is formal justice?
A
- treating everyone the same, this maintains inequalities
3
Q
What is substantive justice?
A
- takes into account inequalities
- also called positive discrimination
4
Q
What is justice as desert?
A
- treat people equally according to how deserving they are
5
Q
What is justice as maximising utility?
A
- maximising benefit for the most number of people
- utilitarianism
6
Q
What is justice as satisfying need?
A
- money would be spent on people who have lost of healthcare needs anon money who’ve no healthcare needs
- money taken from those who could afford it most
7
Q
What is the fair-innings approach?
A
elderly people get lower priority
8
Q
What are the 9 protected characteristics that must be disregarded when treating patients?
A
- disability
- gender reassignment
- pregnant or maternity
- race
- religion or belief
- sex
- sexual orientation
- age
- civil partnership and marriage
