PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Distributive Justice, Profit Motive, Mark Rowlands
25 May 2015
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Hospital admin must decide between hospital beds and new technology. Drs and nurses must have the well being of their patients as their primary moral education obligation. Macro: governmental level, where priorities are identified, policies developed and debated, budget allocation is decided. Meso: middle level, where local initiatives are made (like hospitals) and where administrative decisions are made. Micro: how patients encounter health-care providers we only experience this level. Good decisions at different levels can conflict. Governments must allocate resources to health care and other pubic goods such as. Technological developments: new technology can be expensive to purchase and requires specialized services: demographics: in canada, the increase in percentage of the elderly population increases demand for health care. Baconian science exercise dominion and control over nature basically says that the purpose of science and technology is to. All natural limits are to be overcome by science no matter the cost.
