Age-Based Rationing and Technological Development

Comment on Daniel Callahan\u27s Setting Limits

Will Directed Evolution Destroy Humanity, and If So, What Can We Do About It?

In contemplating the technologies emerging from the Human Genome Project, nothing scares people more than the prospect that we will attempt to use genetic engineering to control the human evolutionary process

Symposium: Workshop on Inherited Breast Cancer in Jewish Women: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications

Introducation to Symposium: Workshop on the BRCA1 Breast Cancer Gene in the Jewish Population, Cleveland, Ohio, 1997

Rationing Expensive Lifesaving Medical Resources

In this Article, Professor Mehlman examines the possible systems for rationing expensive lifesaving medical technologies. First, he concludes that the costs of any rationing system probably exceed its benefits. Consequently, he rejects the rationing of expensive but available lifesaving medical technologies. Second, he argues that the increased availability of the technologies and the recent expansion of patient rights to sue will result in a substantial number of judicial challenges to rationing. Finally, he suggests detailed criteria to aid the courts in deciding whether a resource has been improperly rationed