| Description |
xvii, 469 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Justice, health, and health care -- Ch. 2. Justice and the basic structure of health-care systems -- Ch. 3. Multiculturalism and just health care: taking pluralism seriously -- Ch. 4. Utilitarian approaches to justice in health care -- Ch. 5. Aggregation and the moral relevance of context in health-care decision making -- Ch. 6. Why there is no right to health care -- Ch. 7. Specifying the content of the human right to health care -- Ch. 8. Unequal by design: health care, distributive justice, and the American political process -- Ch. 9. Health-care justice and agency -- Ch. 10. Treatment according to need: justice and the British National Health Service -- Ch. 11. Rationing decisions: integrating cost-effectiveness with other values -- Ch. 12. Resources and rights: court decisions in the United Kingdom -- Ch. 13. Justice and the social reality of health: the case of Australia -- Ch. 14. Justice for all? The Scandinavian approach -- Ch. 15. Ethics, politics, and priorities in the Italian health-care system -- Ch. 16. Philosophical reflections on clinical trials in developing countries -- Ch. 17. Racial groups, distrust, and the distribution of health care -- Ch. 18. Gender justice in the health-care system: past experiences, present realities, and future hopes -- Ch. 19. Bedside justice and disability: personalizing judgment, preserving impartiality -- Ch. 20. The medical, the mental, and the dental: vicissitudes of stigma and compassion -- Ch. 21. Children's right to health care: a modest proposal -- Ch. 22. Age rationing under conditions of injustice -- |
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Ch. 23. Just expectations: family caregivers, practical identities, and social justice in the provision of health care -- Ch. 24. Caring for the vulnerable by caring for the caregiver: the case of mental retardation -- Ch. 25. Justice, health, and the price of poverty -- Ch. 26. Alternative health care: limits of science and boundaries of access -- Ch. 27. Justice in transplant organ allocation -- Ch. 28. Priority to the worse off in health-care resource prioritization -- Ch. 29. Whether to discontinue nonfutile use of a scarce resource -- Ch. 30. Disability, justice, and health-systems performance assessment -- Ch. 31. Responsibility for health status -- Ch. 32. Does distributive justice require universal access to assisted reproduction? -- Ch. 33. Premature and compromised neonates -- Ch. 34. Just caring: Do future possible children have a just claim to a sufficiently healthy genome? |
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Social medicine.
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Social medicine. |
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Right to health.
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Right to health. |
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Social justice.
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Social justice. |
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Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Medical economics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medical economics -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Medical economics. |
| Added Author |
Rhodes, Rosamond.
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Battin, M. Pabst.
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Silvers, Anita.
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| ISBN |
019514354X |
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