Prioritizing Parents

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-12-14 DOI:10.3998/jpe.1183

M. Gorin

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Abstract

Should parents or other primary caregivers of dependent children receive some priority when health care resources are scarce? This paper argues they should. The COVID-19 pandemic has given new urgency to discussions about resource allocation and yet there has been little to no discussion of the important role parents play in protecting and promoting the health of their dependent children. Historically, priority for parents was justified on questionable grounds of social value and this may have led bioethicists and policy makers to overlook more plausible justifications for prioritizing parents. After discussing and criticizing several such justifications for their violation of principles of pluralism and neutrality, a new justification is offered and defended from objections. The reason we should grant some priority to primary caregivers of dependent children is that research shows that doing so would protect and promote the health and lives of children.

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优先考虑父母

当卫生保健资源稀缺时，受抚养儿童的父母或其他主要照顾者是否应优先考虑?本文认为他们应该这么做。COVID-19大流行使讨论资源分配问题变得更加紧迫，但很少有人讨论父母在保护和促进受抚养子女健康方面发挥的重要作用。从历史上看，优先考虑父母的理由是基于可疑的社会价值，这可能导致生物伦理学家和政策制定者忽视了优先考虑父母的更合理的理由。在讨论和批评了几种违反多元主义和中立原则的理由之后，提出了一种新的理由，并为其辩护。我们应该优先照顾受抚养儿童的主要照顾者的原因是，研究表明，这样做将保护和促进儿童的健康和生活。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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