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Moral risk in marketised medicine

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Elson, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3013-8030 (2025) Moral risk in marketised medicine. Ratio. ISSN 1467-9329 doi: 10.1111/rati.70003

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We hope that doctors will recommend and provide the most appropriate investigations and treatments. I argue that some ways of structuring medical provision—mostly, those involving markets—impose a risk of overprovision. This is bad financially, medically, and epistemically, and as such is morally bad, and we should be extremely cautious about damaging trust in doctors. Thus “who cares if the doctor works for a private company so long as treatment is free?” defences of healthcare marketisation and privatisation miss an important point.

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Item Type Article
URI https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/120039
Identification Number/DOI 10.1111/rati.70003
Refereed Yes
Divisions Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Humanities > Philosophy
Publisher Wiley
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