Project

An ethical analysis of age as a criterion for decision making in health care.

Code
3F003209
Duration
01 October 2009 → 30 September 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
QALY bio-ethics intergenerational justice ageism
 
Project description

This project will examine if and to what extent the use of age in the decision making in health care is a form of discrimination. In order to do this a comparison will be made with other forms of discrimination. The analysis will be carried out withing the broader framework of theories pertaining to distributive justice.