Philosophers on Access to Medicine: What Sort of Access to Which Medicines?
Document Type
Article
Year
2020
Citation Information
Govind Persad, Philosophers on Access to Medicine: What Sort of Access to Which Medicines?, (2020), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/2014.
Abstract
Two issues are central to the ethics of access to medicines. First, defining access and understanding tradeoffs between different types of access. Second, understanding which medicines should be understood as essential and how increasing access to some medicines might compete with increasing access to others.
Two issues are central to the ethics of access to medicines. First, defining access and understanding tradeoffs between different types of access. Second, understanding which medicines should be understood as essential and how increasing access to some medicines might compete with increasing access to others.