Research
Research at the Plunkett Centre for Ethics
The Centre's research focuses on two main issues:
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Development of a virtues-based approach to the ethics of health care.
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Development of a theory of justice in the allocation of health care resources.
A virtues-based approach to the ethics of health care:
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Why the return to the virtues?
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What virtues theory has in common with contemporary conseqentialist and deontological theory.
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What is distinctive of virtues theory?
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Particularism and virtues-theory.
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Contributions of virtues theory to the ethics of health care.
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The contribution of Aquinas to virtue theory.
Justice in the allocation of health care resources:
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Principles, obligations and virtues.
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Theories of justice.
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Rawls, Nozick and the utilitarians.
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A virtues-based approach to the "good" of health care.
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Community, the common good and health care distribution.
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Criteria for allocating health care.
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Allocating health care to the mentally ill.
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The ethics of managed care arrangements.
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Surgical practice in a changing health system: resolving the ethical question.
