Has anyone done a comprehensive analysis of factors that people think are, or think should be, ethically relevant when doing triage? eg likelihood of survival is relevant, some think "woman and children first", most think race is irrelevant, etc.
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Are you more interested in which factors are most relevant, or which factors different parties seem to think are most relevant? I bet you could find good stereotyped examples in some of those medic TV shows like ER or House MD. There must be plenty of studies surveying attitudes of medical workers.
I only mention TV shows bc there might be a difference between 1) empirical reality of what is actually prioritized in real instances of triage for various contexts, 2) empirical reality of attitudes experts hold on what should be prioritized, 3) folk attitudes among nonexperts & portrayed in media.
Thanks for sharing. I follow some bioethicists, so am hoping one might chime in.
We've already done a first pass on the ethical factors, but now were being asked about whether we have sufficiently mapped the decision space. And that is a hard question that I don't really know how to answer
What's the distinction between considering ethical factors and mapping the decision space, for these purposes? Does that just mean adding all non-ethical considerations on top of the ethical ones, or a different task entirely? Sorry if that's a naive question
Not naive. It means something like "how much variance can we explain on the ethical side." But the problem is circular. We can explain the majority of the variance for the probes we've written. But are our probes comprehensively testing the reasons medics choose one patient over another?
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Or philosophical treatments: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8695528
There's a whole new subfield in X-Phi devoted to bioethics:
https://www.bioxphi.org/home
We've already done a first pass on the ethical factors, but now were being asked about whether we have sufficiently mapped the decision space. And that is a hard question that I don't really know how to answer