Public Preferences About Fairness and the Ethics of Allocating Scarce Medical Interventions

In this book chapter, the author provides: an overview of different approaches to the ethics of allocating scarce medical interventions; a brief recap of social scientific research on the allocation of scarce medical resources; an examination of different ways in which public preferences could matter to the ethics of allocation; ways in which social scientists could learn from ethics as they conduct research into public preferences regarding the allocation of scarce medical resources.