Healthism : health-status discrimination and the law / Jessica L. Roberts, Elizabeth Weeks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Jessica L., author.

Leonard, Elizabeth Weeks, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Can an employer refuse to hire someone who tests positive for nicotine or alcohol? Can an airline or movie theatre require overweight customers to purchase two seats? Can a health insurance company refuse to sell policies to those most in need of medical care? Can the government condition public assistance on wellness program participation or work activity? In this illuminating book, Jessica L. Roberts and Elizabeth Weeks consider these and similar questions, offering readers a nuanced analysis of when and why discrimination based on health status - or 'healthism' - should be allowed, and when it should not. They provide a methodology to distinguish desirable health-based classifications from the undesirable, and propose law and policy solutions to encourage the former and limit the latter. This work should be read by anyone concerned with how government does - and does not - regulate based on health.

Contents:

What is healthism?

Understanding healthism

Limits of antidiscrimination and privacy law

Limits of health insurance law

Limits of private law

Testing healthism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Nov 2018).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781316675601

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.