PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Liam Butchart
AU  - Kristin Krumenacker
AU  - Aymen Baig
TI  - Different approach to medical decision-making in difficult circumstances: Kittay’s Ethics of Care
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2021-107521
DP  - 2021 Aug 22
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - medethics-2021-107521
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/22/medethics-2021-107521.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/22/medethics-2021-107521.full
AB  - The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated advances in bioethical approaches to medical decision-making. This paper develops an alternative method for rationing care during periods of resource scarcity. Typical approaches to triaging rely on utilitarian calculations; however, this approach introduces a problematic antihumanist sentiment, inviting the proposition of alternative schemata. As such, we suggest a feminist approach to medical decision-making, founded in and expanding upon the framework of Eva Kittay’s Ethics of Care. We suggest that this new structure addresses the issue of medical decision-making during times of resource scarcity just as well as pure utilitarian approaches while better attending to their significant theoretical concerns, forming a coherent alternative to the current bioethical consensus.No data are available. Not applicable.