{"id":2311,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/the-extreme-task-of-prioritising-patients-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-extreme-task-of-prioritising-patients-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/12\/the-extreme-task-of-prioritising-patients-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The extreme task of prioritising patients during the Covid-19 pandemic."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Object &#8211; The object I will be examining is to do with the question of medical treatment and prioritisation in UK hospitals, in relation to a pandemic scenario such as covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>Aim:<br \/>\nHow \u2013 I am applying different ethical concepts to the question of prioritisation in order to find which one will be the most helpful in deciding which patients to treat.<\/p>\n<p>Why \u2013 I am looking at this because it has been a very relevant problem during the Covid-19 pandemic. Hopefully I can find the best way to prioritise patients <\/p>\n<p>Concepts &amp; thinkers:<br \/>\nFletcher \u2013 situations ethics<br \/>\nMill \u2013 Rule Utilitarianism<br \/>\nFoucault \u2013 Biopolitics and governmentality <\/p>\n<p>Main sources:<br \/>\nFletcher \u2013 Situation Ethics: the new morality<br \/>\nMill \u2013 Utilitarianism<br \/>\nNHS<br \/>\nFoucault \u2013The Birth of  Biopolitics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benedict Rainford, 2021, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,22,128],"tags":[125,21,87],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-311","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-covid-19","tag-ethics","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}