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Project

An ethical analysis of age as a criterion for decision making in health care.

This project will examine if and to what extent the use of age in the decision making in health care is a form of discrimination. In order to do this a comparison will be made with other forms of discrimination. The analysis will be carried out withing the broader framework of theories pertaining to distributive justice.

Date:1 Oct 2009 →  30 Sep 2013
Keywords:QALY, bio-ethics, intergenerational justice, ageism
Disciplines:Philosophy, Theory and methodology of philosophy, Ethics, Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified