Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Abstract How should scarce health-related resources be allocated? This paper argues that values that apply to these decisions fail to always fully determine what we sh

Senior lecturer Göran Duus-Otterström at the University of Gothenburg. ABSTRACT A common view in the discussion of climate change is that the polluter should pay. The costs associated with combatting cl

Journal of Workplace Learning. 28(1), 17–32, doi.org/10.1108/JWL-04-2015-0033. Abstract PurposeThe purpose of this paper was to explore what kind of ethical competence healthcare managers need in handli

Olle Torpman

I defended my dissertation on the implications of libertarianism on different climate issues at Stockholm university, and since then I have researched, among other subjects, principles of just allocat

International Environmental Agreements , 16(5), p.655–670. doi:10.1007/s10784-015-9288-3 Abstract Most agree that large sums of money should be transferred to the most vulnerable countries in order to he

Economics and Philosophy 37 Abstract Economic ordeals are allocation mechanisms that impose non-financial ‘deadweight costs to qualify for a transfer’ (Nichols and Zeckhauser 1982: 372). Examples include

How should health-related resources be allocated at the population-level? This project explores some problems with conventional approaches and presents a new one.

This informal workshop focuses on four papers dealing with a variety of ethical questions associated with the use of age limits, especially in health care. Time: Wednesday, November 23, 14:00 - 18:00Plac The Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), Holländardgatan 13, Stockholm According to Jeff McMahan, we ought to save an individual, A, from dying as a young adult (e.g., at age 30) rather than save some other individual, B, from dying as a newborn, even if the latter intervention would give B twice as many years of full-quality life as the former intervention would give A.  Call this claim .  I argue that if we accept , then we must reject at least one of three other claims:

Can ethnic implicit bias affect how public officials at social security offices assess applications for income support and if so, can these attitudes be changed or controlled across time?

The Institute for Futures Studies (IF), Stockholm, is appointing one or two researchers (sociologist/social scientist) to the projects: YOUNG: Children’s living conditions in a changing society: SocioeYOUNGWORK: Early labour market outcomes of young adults