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Ethical Choices in Long-Term Care, What Does Justice Require? : The Cross-Cluster Initiative on Long-term Care
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wikler, Daniel.
- World Health Organization Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caregivers.
- Chronically ill--Care.
- Medical policy.
- People with disabilities--Long-term care.
- Local Subjects:
- Caregivers.
- Chronically ill--Care.
- Medical policy.
- People with disabilities--Long-term care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (104 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva : World Health Organization, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- To contribute to the dialogue about how best to achieve equitable, fair, rational, and transparent decisions, this report addresses the social and ethical basis of long-term care, identifying the key issues in caring for persons with chronic illnesses and disabilities. It provides a framework of analysis that specifies the issues and stakeholders intrinsic to redesigning long-term health care systems. The report includes a commissioned paper, by the distinguished philosopher Martha Nussbaum which illuminates the need to expand theories of justice and social contract to encompass social responsibility for care. Together with the responses of Norman Daniels and Eva Kittay, they collectively provide a theoretical lens for rethinking issues of fairness in allocating social resources of all kinds.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Summary; 1 Overview; 2 The Societal Perspective; 3 The Role of the Family; 4 Other Stakeholders; 5 The Caregiving Relationship; 6 Long-Term Care and Social Justice; 7 The Way Forward; 8 References; Appendices; A. Long-Term Care and Social Justic: A Challenge to Conventional Ideas of the Social Contract; B. Justice and Long-Term Care: Need We Abandon Social Contract Theory? A Reply to Nussbaum; C. Can Contractualism Justify State-Supported Long-Term Care Policies? Or, I'd Rather Be Some Mother's Child: A Reply to Nussbaum and Daniels; D. The African Perspective
- E. List of Participants
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786610060504
- 9789240680326
- 9240680322
- OCLC:
- 181845544
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