Medicine and social justice : essays on the distribution of health care / edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin, Anita Silvers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rhodes, Rosamond, editor.

Battin, M. Pabst, editor.

Silvers, Anita, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Right to health.

Social justice.

Medical ethics.

Medical economics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Health services accessibility.

Bioethics.

Medical economics.

Health Services Accessibility.

Bioethical Issues.

Economics, Medical.

Social Justice.

Ethics, Medical.

Medical Subjects:

Health Services Accessibility.

Bioethical Issues.

Economics, Medical.

Social Justice.

Ethics, Medical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 560 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Essays on the distribution of health care

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Because medicine can preserve life, restore health and maintain the body's functions, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that just societies should provide for their members. Yet, there is wide disagreement over the scope and content of what to provide, to whom, how, when, and why. In this unique and comprehensive volume, some of the best-known philosophers, physicians, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists writing on the subject discuss what social justice in medicine should be. Their contributions deepen our understanding of the theoretical and practical issues that run

Contents:

PART I: Theoretical Foundations

Justice, health, and health care / Norman Daniels

Justice, liberty, and the choice of health-system structure / Paul T. Menzel

A utilitarian approach to justice in health care / Mark S. Stein

Justice pluralism : Resource allocation in medicine and public health / Rosamond Rhodes

Health risk and health security / Jonathan Wolff

Aggregation and the moral relevance of context in health care decision-making / David Wasserman

Why there is no right to health care / Stefan Bernard Baumrin

Equality, democracy, and the human right to health care / Kristen Hessler and Allen Buchanan

PART II: Access and Rationing

Unequal by design : Health care, distributive justice, and the American political process / Bruce C. Vladeck and Eliot Fishman

Justice of and within health care finance / Stephen R. Latham

Setting priorities for a basic minimum of accessible health care / Paul T. Menzel

Why justice requires rationing in health care / Gopal Sreenivasan

Priority to the worse off in health care resource prioritization / Dan W. Brock

Whether to discontinue nonfutile use of a scarce resource / F.M. Kamm

Responsibility for health status / Lance K. Stell

Health care justice and political agency 2011 / Patricia S. Mann

Allocating health care resources in the UK : Putting principles into practice / Mark Sheehan and Tony Hope

Global health, human rights, and distributive justice / John W. Lango

Equal access to health care under the UN Disability Rights Convention / Michael Ashley Stein, Janet E. Lord, and Dorothy Weiss Tolchin

PART III: Populations

Justice, health, and the price of poverty / Patricia Smith

Racial groups, distrust, and the distribution of health care / Howard McGary

Gender justice in the health care system : An elusive goal / Rosemarie Tong

Justice for gay and lesbian people in health care / Timothy F. Murphy

Health care justice for the chronically ill and disabled : A deficiency in justice theory and how to cure it / Anita Silvers

Getting from here to there : Claiming justice for the severely cognitively disabled / Eva Feder Kittay

Cognitive surrogacy, assisted participation, and moral status / David Wasserman and Jeff McMahan

Health care reform and children's right to health care : A modest proposal / Loretta M. Kopelman

Premature and compromised neonates / Ian R. Holzman

Age rationing under conditions of injustice / Leslie Pickering Francis

Health care for soldiers / Fritz Allhoff

Social justice and correctional health services / Kenneth Kipnis

PART IV: Dilemmas and Priorities

Are pre-existing condition exclusion clauses just? Lessons from causal and ethical considerations regarding genetic testing / Robert T. Pennock

Oral and mental health services / David Ozar and James Sabin

Limits of science and boundaries of access : Alternative health care / E. Haavi Morreim

Just expectations : Family caregivers, practical identities, and social justice in the provision of health care / James Lindemann Nelson

Justice in research on human subjects / David Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller

Just genetics : The ethical challenges of personalized medicine / Leonard M. Fleck

Expanded newborn screening : Contemporary challenges to the parens patriae doctrine and the use of public resources / Jeffrey R. Botkin, Rebecca A. Anderson, and Erin Rothwell

Justice, profound neurological injury, and brain death / Michael Nair-Collins and James M. Hitt

Justice in transplant organ allocation / Rosamond Rhodes and Thomas D. Schiano

Justice in planning for pandemics and disasters / Leslie Pickering Francis and Margaret P. Battin

Justice has (almost) nothing to do with it : Medical malpractice and tort reform / David A. Hyman and Charles Silver.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-026755-0

0-19-993081-3

OCLC:

860706036