McKie, John; Richardson, Jeff - In: Social Science & Medicine 56 (2003) 12, pp. 2407-2419
Jonsen coined the term "Rule of Rescue"(RR) to describe the imperative people feel to rescue identifiable individuals facing avoidable death. In this paper we attempt to draw a more detailed picture of the RR, identifying its conflict with cost-effectiveness analysis, the preference it entails...