Samia Hurst
I am a physician ethicist, Director of the Institute for Ethics, History, and the Humanities at the Geneva University Medical School in Switzerland, consultant ethicist to the Clinical ethics council of the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), and supervisor for the Clinical Ethics Unit at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). After specializing in internal medicine in Switzerland, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda from 2001 to 2003. From 2008 to 2012, I chaired the Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics, which is a wonderful organization of which you should all be members. No specific professional background is required : our common point is an interest in the ethical issues raised by medicine and the life sciences. We publish Bioethica Forum a peer-reviewed bioethics journal in English, German, and French. I am a member of the European Clinical Ethics Network, for which I started the Wikipedia page on Resources for clinical ethics consultation: some of you may want to contribute to it. I am also a member of the Central Ethics Commission of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics. If you read French you can find more information on my homepage, including links to my publications. I also host one of the (currently) very few French-language bioethics blogs.
Supervisors: Alex Mauron, Marion Danis, Ezekiel Emanuel, and Arnaud Perrier
Supervisors: Alex Mauron, Marion Danis, Ezekiel Emanuel, and Arnaud Perrier
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The book offers a unique combination of normative analyses of the moral grounds for resource allocation and rationing at the bedside, empirical evidence about the prevalence of rationing by physicians, and concrete suggestions about how clinicians and health care systems can work together to make resource allocation and rationing as fair as possible.
This book presents an international comparison of attitudes towards and reported bedside rationing by physicians. It illustrates and justifies why the relevant question regarding bedside rationing is not whether it ought to be practiced, but how it can be practiced in a manner which respects everyone.
Less attention has been given to careful analysis and refinement of some key concepts and values that guide and motivate these studies of health inequalities. The essays in this book demonstrate the need to identify and debate alternative positions on the choice of measures of health inequality; the definitions of 'inequality' and 'inequity' in health, and their interrelationship; the ethical basis for attaching priority to narrowing gaps in longevity and health among individuals, groups, and societies; and the possible solutions to a series of puzzles involving uncertainty and variable population size.
The authors of these essays are philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and physicians contributing to our understanding of ethical issues in population health. Their contributions will be of interest to anyone interested in inequalities in health, including specialists in health policy, public health, epidemiology, moral philosophy, demography, and health economics.