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Medicine and social justice : essays on the distribution of health care / edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin, Anita Silvers.
LIBRA RA418 .M48 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Right to health.
- Social justice.
- Medical ethics.
- Medical economics--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Patient Rights.
- Social Justice.
- Bioethical Issues.
- Sociology, Medical.
- Medical economics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Patient Rights.
- Social Justice.
- Bioethical Issues.
- Sociology, Medical.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 469 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- I Theoretical Foundations
- 1. Justice, Health, and Health Care / Norman Daniels 6
- 2. Justice and the Basic Structure of Health-Care Systems / Paul T. Menzel 24
- 3. Multiculturalism and Just Health Care: Taking Pluralism Seriously / Jeffrey Blustein 38
- 4. Utilitarian Approaches to Justice in Health Care / Matti Hayry 53
- 5. Aggregation and the Moral Relevance of Context in Health-Care Decision Making / David Wasserman 65
- 6. Why There Is No Right to Health Care / Bernard H. Baumrin 78
- 7. Specifying the Content of the Human Right to Health Care / Kristen Hessler, Allen Buchanan 84
- II Rationing and Access in Today's World
- 8. Unequal by Design: Health Care, Distributive Justice, and the American Political Process / Bruce C. Vladeck, Eliot Fishman 102
- 9. Health-Care Justice and Agency / Patricia S. Mann 121
- 10. Treatment According to Need: Justice and the British National Health Service / Roger Crisp 134
- 11. Rationing Decisions: Integrating Cost-Effectiveness with Other Values / Tony Hope, John Reynolds, Sian Griffiths 144
- 12. Resources and Rights: Court Decisions in the United Kingdom / Richard H.S. Tur 156
- 13. Justice and the Social Reality of Health: The Case of Australia / Mark Sheehan, Peter Sheehan 169
- 14. Justice for All? The Scandinavian Approach / Tuija Takala 183
- 15. Ethics, Politics, and Priorities in the Italian Health-Care System / Giovanna Ruberto 191
- 16. Philosophical Reflections on Clinical Trials in Developing Countries / Baruch A. Brody 197
- III Special Needs of Social Groups
- 17. Racial Groups, Distrust, and the Distribution of Health Care / Howard McGary 212
- 18. Gender Justice in the Health-Care System: Past Experiences, Present Realities, and Future Hopes / Rosemarie Tong, Nancy Williams 224
- 19. Bedside Justice and Disability: Personalizing Judgment, Preserving Impartiality / Anita Silvers 235
- 20. The Medical, the Mental, and the Dental: Vicissitudes of Stigma and Compassion / Michael Teitleman 248
- 21. Children's Right to Health Care: A Modest Proposal / Loretta M. Kopelman 259
- 22. Age Rationing Under Conditions of Injustice / Leslie Pickering Francis 270
- 23. Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities, and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care / James Lindemann Nelson 278
- 24. Caring for the Vulnerable by Caring for the Caregiver: The Case of Mental Retardation / Eva Feder Kittay 290
- 25. Justice, Health, and the Price of Poverty / Patricia Smith 301
- IV Dilemmas for Medicine and Health-Care Systems: Assessment and Priorities
- 26. Alternative Health Care: Limits of Science and Boundaries of Access / E. Haavi Morreim 319
- 27. Justice in Transplant Organ Allocation / Rosamond Rhodes 345
- 28. Priority to the Worse Off in Health-Care Resource Prioritization / Dan W. Brock 362
- 29. Whether to Discontinue Nonfutile Use of a Scarce Resource / F.M. Kamm 373
- 30. Disability, Justice, and Health-Systems Performance Assessment / Jerome E. Bickenbach 390
- 31. Responsibility for Health Status / Lance K. Stell 405
- 32. Does Distributive Justice Require Universal Access to Assisted Reproduction? / Mary Anne Warren 426
- 33. Premature and Compromised Neonates / Ian R. Holzman 438
- 34. Just Caring: Do Future Possible Children Have a Just Claim to a Sufficiently Healthy Genome? / Leonard M. Fleck 446.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 019514354X
- OCLC:
- 49283894
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