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Critical Bioethics: The Ethical Way Of Allocating Resources

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+ According to traditional bioethics, some ethical ways of allocating resources are those dependent on equal health care needs, healthy workforce, and QALYs. Equal healthcare means that resources that are allocated in ways that are equally distributed among all those patients that have the same health care needs. This view in traditional bioethics treats all subjects the same regardless of the circumstances. Therefore, certain patients might not be prioritized because all patients would be given the same treatment. A healthy workforce is also a way of allocating resources according to traditional bioethics because those that are involved might look at the need to have a healthy workers. This would allow those that are patients to be cured because …show more content…

For the equal health care needs, critical bioethics might not emphasize the importance of resources being equally distributed since not all resources need to be equally distributed. Critical bioethics would instead emphasize the importance of the lived experience of beings. The lived experience sees individuals as autonomous beings making rational choices. This allows the individuals to be accounted for according to their experiences rather than as an aspect of the entire population. Therefore, critical bioethics would allocate resources in a way that understands the lived experience of beings. Further, QALY’s would also not be the best allocation of resources according to critical bioethics. Critical bioethics frays from the objective view of beings. Since normality and quality of life can’t be defined by some objective approach, critical bioethics wouldn’t use this as a principle in allocating resources. Critical bioethics emphasizes the importance of subjectivity of experience and quality would be a challenge to measure abstractly. Also, quality of life can’t be objectivity measure since that would mean that normal has to be defined, which is not the case for critical

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