PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Butchart, Liam AU - Krumenacker, Kristin AU - Baig, Aymen TI - Different approach to medical decision-making in difficult circumstances: Kittay’s Ethics of Care AID - 10.1136/medethics-2021-107521 DP - 2023 Apr 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 293--299 VI - 49 IP - 4 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/49/4/293.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/49/4/293.full SO - J Med Ethics2023 Apr 01; 49 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.