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Why Contractualism Cannot Accept Equal Treatment for Equal Statistical Loss Open
Some ex post contractualists endorse the principle of equal treatment for equal statistical loss, which holds that cases with equal expectations of statistical loss should be treated equally. I argue that this is mistaken. Contractualism i…
Causal Pluralism and Public Health Ethics Trade‐Offs: A Toolkit for Acting on Social Determinants of Health Open
This paper aims to specify causal pluralism through considerations from public health ethics for causal analyses featuring social determinants of health. We will argue that choosing approaches to causality within a pluralistic framework ca…
Frontline Healthcare Professionals’ Views Regarding the Impact of COVID-19 on Ethical Decision-Making: A Multicentre Mixed-Methods Study from Estonia Open
Background: The objective of the study was to investigate frontline healthcare professionals’ experiences and attitudes in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic’s ethical and psychosocial aspects in Estonia. There were two research foci: first…
The Sufficientarian Alternative: A Commentary on Setting Health-Care Priorities Open
In this commentary on Torbjörn Tännsjö’s Setting Health-Care Priorities, I argue that sufficientarianism provides a valuable perspective in considering how to set health care priorities. I claim that pace Tännsjö, sufficientarianism does o…
Valuing health: against the ethical view Open
Health is often valued by its contribution to well-being. The most common way to \nestablish values for health states is through eliciting a sample population’s preferences among \nstates. The evidential view supports preferences based on …