Sustainability, Equal Treatment, and Temporal Neutrality
Document Type
Article
Year
2021
Citation Information
Govind Persad, Sustainability, Equal Treatment, and Temporal Neutrality, (2021), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/1939.
Abstract
Addressing distributive justice issues in health policy—ranging from the allocation of health system funding to the allocation of scarce COVID-19 interventions like intensive care unit beds and vaccines—involves the application of ethical principles. Should a principle of sustainability be among them? I suggest that while the value of temporal neutrality underlying such a principle is compelling, it is already implicit in the more basic principle of equal treatment.
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