Legal, Ethical and Medical Aspects of Triage: Whom to Save During a Pandemic?

Salecl, Renata

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-11-19
  • 售價: $7,030
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$6,679
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 188
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031737539
  • ISBN-13: 9783031737534
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商品描述

Triage decision-making during a pandemic is linked to complex ethical, medical, and legal dilemmas, which in the past have been discussed mainly based on hypothetical scenarios. The crisis caused by Covid-19 has shown these dilemmas to be very real, and many countries faced significant health care challenges during the pandemic. The book presents different views on the problems of triage during the time of Covid-19 and to shed a light on how various countries approached triage during the pandemic.

The absence of staff and resources in many countries opened a discussion of whether they should strive for the most egalitarian way of deciding whom to help with limited resources or to act in a utilitarian manner and establish a triage system based on saving as many people as possible. There were so-called conflicts of duty in many parts of the world, and decision-makers who had to choose which patients would survive in the absence of resources were under tremendous pressure. This book presents different views on the issue of such decision-making from legal, ethical, and medical points of view. The authors explain the origin of the concept of triage and its use in modern medicine. They point out the distinction between triage and the allocation of resources while also analysing how pandemic triage differs from emergency and disaster triage.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

在疫情期間的分診決策與複雜的倫理、醫療和法律困境息息相關,過去這些問題主要是基於假設情境進行討論。Covid-19所引發的危機使這些困境變得非常真實,許多國家在疫情期間面臨重大醫療挑戰。本書呈現了在Covid-19期間分診問題的不同觀點,並闡明各國在疫情期間如何處理分診。

許多國家人力和資源的缺乏引發了關於是否應該追求最平等的方式來決定在資源有限的情況下幫助誰,或是以功利主義的方式行事,建立一個基於拯救盡可能多人的分診系統的討論。在世界許多地方出現了所謂的職責衝突,決策者在資源不足的情況下必須選擇哪些病人能夠存活,承受著巨大的壓力。本書從法律、倫理和醫療的角度呈現了對這種決策問題的不同看法。作者解釋了分診概念的起源及其在現代醫學中的應用。他們指出分診與資源分配之間的區別,同時分析了疫情分診與緊急和災難分診的不同之處。

作者簡介

Dr Renata Salecl, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Birkbeck Law School, University of London.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

雷娜塔·薩萊克博士,斯洛維尼亞盧布爾雅那法學院犯罪學研究所,倫敦大學比克貝克法學院。