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Health care, ethics and insurance / edited by Tom Sorell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Professional ethics.
- Professional ethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Great Britain.
- Medical care.
- Medical ethics--Great Britain.
- Medical ethics.
- Health insurance--Great Britain.
- Health insurance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This comprehensive and sometimes controversial book provides an essential survey of the key issues in health insurance. It is a valuable read for students and teachers of Business Studies as well as health professionals of all kinds.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The ethics of underwriting; The freedom to underwrite; Freedom within limits: underwriting and ethics; Genetics and ethics: the scientific background; Genetics and insurance; HIV and insurance; Disability and insurance; Public or private provision?; Ethical issues in social insurance for health; More private health insurance is desirable and inevitable; Equal access to health care: a problematic ideal; Public or private? Insurance and pensions; Assurance, pensioning and long-term care; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-71508-0
- 1-134-71509-9
- 0-203-27439-3
- 1-280-33686-2
- 0-203-02124-X
- 9786610336869
- 9780203021248
- OCLC:
- 70748034
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