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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780610903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-770756-4

1-280-83528-1

9786610835287

0-19-974896-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RhodesRosamond

BattinM. Pabst

SilversAnita

Disciplina

362.1/042

Soggetti

Social medicine

Right to health

Social justice

Medical ethics

Medical economics - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""I: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS""; ""1. Justice, Health, and Health Care""; ""2. Justice and the Basic Structure of Health-Care Systems""; ""3. Multiculturalism and Just Health Care: Taking Pluralism Seriously""; ""4. Utilitarian Approaches to Justice in Health Care""; ""5. Aggregation and the Moral Relevance of Context in Health-Care Decision Making""; ""6. Why There Is No Right to Health Care""; ""7. Specifying the Content of the Human Right to Health Care""; ""II: RATIONING AND ACCESS IN TODAY'S WORLD""

""8. Unequal by Design: Health Care, Distributive Justice, and the American Political Process""""9. Health-Care Justice and Agency""; ""10. Treatment According to Need: Justice and the British National Health Service""; ""11. Rationing Decisions: Integrating Cost-Effectiveness with Other Values""; ""12. Resources and Rights: Court Decisions in the



United Kingdom""; ""13. Justice and the Social Reality of Health: The Case of Australia""; ""14. Justice for All? The Scandinavian Approach""; ""15. Ethics, Politics, and Priorities in the Italian Health-Care System""

""16. Philosophical Reflections on Clinical Trials in Developing Countries""""III: SPECIAL NEEDS OF SOCIAL GROUPS""; ""17. Racial Groups, Distrust, and the Distribution of Health Care""; ""18. Gender Justice in the Health-Care System: Past Experiences, Present Realities, and Future Hopes""; ""19. Bedside Justice and Disability: Personalizing Judgment, Preserving Impartiality""; ""20. The Medical, the Mental, and the Dental: Vicissitudes of Stigma and Compassion""; ""21. Children's Right to Health Care: A Modest Proposal""; ""22. Age Rationing Under Conditions of Injustice""

""23. Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities, and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care""""24. Caring for the Vulnerable by Caring for the Caregiver: The Case of Mental Retardation""; ""25. Justice, Health, and the Price of Poverty""; ""IV: DILEMMAS FOR MEDICINE AND HEALTH-CARE SYSTEMS: ASSESSMENT AND PRIORITIES""; ""26. Alternative Health Care: Limits of Science and Boundaries of Access""; ""27. Justice in Transplant Organ Allocation""; ""28. Priority to the Worse Off in Health-Care Resource Prioritization""

""29. Whether to Discontinue Nowfutile Use of a Scarce Resource""""30. Disability, Justice, and Health-Systems Performance Assessment""; ""31. Responsibility for Health Status""; ""32. Does Distributive Justice Require Universal Access to Assisted Reproduction?""; ""33. Premature and Compromised Neonates""; ""34. Just Caring: Do Future Possible Children Have a Just Claim to a Sufficiently Healthy Genome?""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""