Park, J.K. and Davies, B. orcid.org/0000-0003-4612-7894 (2023) Rationing, responsibility, and vaccination during COVID-19: a conceptual map. The American Journal of Bioethics. ISSN 1526-5161
Abstract
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, shortages of scarce healthcare resources consistently presented significant moral and practical challenges. While the importance of vaccines as a key pharmaceutical intervention to stem pandemic scarcity was widely publicized, a sizable proportion of the population chose not to vaccinate. In response, some have defended the use of vaccination status as a criterion for the allocation of scarce medical resources. In this paper, we critically interpret this burgeoning literature, and describe a framework for thinking about vaccine-sensitive resource allocation using the values of responsibility, reciprocity, and justice. Although our aim here is not to defend a single view of vaccine-sensitive resource allocation, we believe that attending critically with the diversity of arguments in favor (and against) vaccine-sensitivity reveals a number of questions that a vaccine-sensitive approach to allocation should answer in future pandemics.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | ||||
Keywords: | COVID-19; pandemics; public health; rationing/resource allocation; reciprocity; responsibility for health | ||||
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield | ||||
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2023 12:44 | ||||
Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2023 12:44 | ||||
Status: | Published online | ||||
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2201188 | ||||
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